[Pkg-uml-devel] 2.6.16 ready for upload

Mattia Dongili malattia at linux.it
Fri Apr 7 15:53:41 UTC 2006


On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 06:38:03AM +0200, Stefano Melchior wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:28:53PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> Dear all,
> > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:11:13PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 06:48:21PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > deb http://people.debian.org/~malattia/debian binary/
> > > > deb-src http://people.debian.org/~malattia/debian source/
> > > 
> > > updated with the patch from svn commit r39.
> > 
> > One more small update (see r40), so you have one more day to speak :)
> > Packaged on people.d.o updated as well.
> > I'm plannig to upload tomorrow evening (CET).
> 
> I was wondering if it is the case to disable CONFIG_MODE_TT by default,
> since it no longer considered by Blaisorblade "secure" than "SKAS" mode.
> I saw differences among "umldefconfig" and the other couple of conf files
> regarding this point.

Yes, will do it. Default is "n" so it's safe enough. I hope we'll get
some feedback from users one day.

> Another consideration, that is due maybe to my error, is the "Host
> processor type and features" definition: I was wondering if it would be
> better to set it to "CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII=y" than "CONFIG_MPENTIUM4=y",

yes, I found that config option and left as is even if a little
reluctant :)

> because it is true that the PIV is widely spread, but it has codes that
> may prevent to correctly or properly work the PIII owner.

well, etch is targeted at 486 and above so we should probably lower our
target too.

Ok, will prepare a new package and upload it.
-- 
mattia
:wq!
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