[Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#663437: user-mode-linux: support kernel 3.2

[Mattia Dongili]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 01:49:33PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> On Monday 12 March 2012 03:19 AM, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > I added you to the project.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > Please re-run the configuration for bot x86 and x86-64 before applying
> > the patch, I'm sure there are going to be piles of changes in that area
> > too.
> 
> I guess it is the same old 'make arch=um' and setting the config. (I
> haven't fiddled with the config in a long time)

there are targets in the debian/rules that should help you with that.

My policy so far has always been to enable everything as module and when
in doubt checking the linux-image package configuration should give you
an idea about what to do.
If you like, start committing preliminary configurations I can try to
find the time to also give it spin here this weekend.

> > We can also have a chat before so that I can explain how I maintained
> > the configuration so far.
> 
> Sure. On that note, I would like to know your view on these bug reports:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521713
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=186930

I think we should provide kernel-headers for u-m-l.

> These are requests for the headers package, which are required if you
> would like to use a package that also build a kernel module (like
> iscsitarget, open-iscsi). I haven't tested how that would behave inside uml.
> 
> Is there a reason why no headers is shipped?

mostly lack of time in packaging the headers. Actually I have some
incomplete work stored locally (just debian/control changes) that goes
in that direction.

One other thing about u-m-l is that it should probably be part of the
kernel team's build system. It'd be great to be able to add new targets
to the kernel's team work and just get a new u-m-l package created using
their infrastructure. I tried doing that years ago but had not much
feedback. It's worth trying again and maybe it's worth doing this rather
than keeping u-m-l as a separate package.

-- 
mattia
:wq!