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Re: UML not maintained anymore?

Started byPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
First post2017-03-17 17:30 +0100
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  Re: UML not maintained anymore? Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-03-17 17:30 +0100
    Re: UML not maintained anymore? Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> - 2017-03-17 18:30 +0100

#1603441 — Re: UML not maintained anymore?

FromPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Date2017-03-17 17:30 +0100
SubjectRe: UML not maintained anymore?
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On Tue 2017-02-28 16:28:11, Natale Patriciello wrote:
> It seems there is no interest in fixing bugs (such as [1]). Moreover,
> same guest filesystem (same host os, distribution, etc.) on two
> different machines (i7-2630 the first, i7-7700HQ the second) yield
> different results, with crashes and corruption of filesystem in the
> modern computer.  So, can I consider UML as a legacy thing in the Linux
> kernel? With what I can replace it (I'm doing TCP research, and I focus
> on the networking stack)?

Well.. if it worked before and does not work now, that's a regression
and will be fixed. Bisect would be useful.

If it never worked on new CPUs, that's different situation...
									Pavel
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FromRichard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Date2017-03-17 18:30 +0100
Message-ID<tm3Ro-1t5-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1603441
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> On Tue 2017-02-28 16:28:11, Natale Patriciello wrote:
>> It seems there is no interest in fixing bugs (such as [1]). Moreover,
>> same guest filesystem (same host os, distribution, etc.) on two
>> different machines (i7-2630 the first, i7-7700HQ the second) yield
>> different results, with crashes and corruption of filesystem in the
>> modern computer.  So, can I consider UML as a legacy thing in the Linux
>> kernel? With what I can replace it (I'm doing TCP research, and I focus
>> on the networking stack)?
>
> Well.. if it worked before and does not work now, that's a regression
> and will be fixed. Bisect would be useful.
>
> If it never worked on new CPUs, that's different situation...

Yep, a bisect would be good.
Regressions are rather easy to fix.

UML is more or less in legacy mode an I work on it purely in my very limited
spare time. That's why I don't have time to track down and solve every
single bug.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard

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