[Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#384881: UML for amd64 - status?

[Mattia Dongili]

Hi!

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:30:17PM +0200, Martin Stigge wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 09:38 +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > > I'll do a bit more testing and will send you a diff for the adjusted
> > > config.amd64 in the next 1-2 days.
> > 
> > great, thanks!
> > could you try using the i386 config as a starting point? or eventually
> > just make sure that most of the modules/options enabled there are
> > enabled on amd64 as well.
> 
> Sorry for the delay. After some attempts do build a nice config.amd64
> which were unsuccessful since I felt I don't really know what I'm doing,
> I tried again today and it went quite well.
> 
> I started with your config.i386, fired up a "make menuconfing ARCH=um"
> and the only thing I changed manually was to activate
> CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH_X86_64 and CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_X86_64 since they
> were off by default. You find the new config.amd64 is attached.
> 
> With this .config, the kernel compiled ok afaict (buildlog.amd64
> attached for the debian/rules build target), except that I got the
> following at make linux:

No problem, they are usually harmless.
...
> I could also successfully start the uml (user-mode-linux.output
> attached) and it went nicely afaict. Of course, the debugging features
> (like CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME which prints the timestamps on the boot output)
> are still enabled, so they should be turned of before uploading. (But
> they are also on in config.i386 - why that?)

I like PRINTK_TIME ;)

> Could I help with something else before an upload? Should I check
> something specific inside the running uml? Are there some usual tests
> you do?

don't know, you may want to download the rootstrap sources, add the
amd64 architecture here as well and try to build a root filesystem.
If you don't have plenty of bandwidth don't worry and leave this alone.
Well, I usually make sure that the kernel modules load, that a threaded
apache2 works under stress and upload the package :)
Sorry I don't have any automated test script, will have to provide one
one day.

Ok, I'll have a look at the whole stuff now. I'm preparing 2.6.21-1um,
I'll ask for help if I can't get an updated config.

Thanks for your kind help!
-- 
mattia
:wq!