On Thursday 13 January 2005 12:49, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The best host kernel is a 2.4 + SKAS3-v3, the best guest kernel is > > 2.6.9-bb4. I've not tested plain 2.6.10 as guest, but nobody has yet > > done it, it seems!
> Okay, thanks. I think we'll go for 2.6.9-bb4. Host kernel is fine > already. > Though, we are using plain 2.6.10 at the moment, and it has been > working really well in our limited scenarios. > It would be nice to know where the potential problems with that kernel > are, if they crop up? Well, part of the patches which went in 2.6.11-rc1 were due to bugs precent in 2.6.10 prereleases, so should have been in 2.6.10. Especially the "uml-fix-update_process_times-call.patch" of 2.6.10-mm1, aka uml-update-process-times.patch in 2.6.9-bb4 - this missing thing caused crashes during testing, C. Aker knows exactly which ones. > Is there going to be a bb kernel based on 2.6.10 > soon? I would hope that is not needed, but I fear that will happen. I say "I fear" because opening a tree means a lot of workload to check all bugreports, update web pages and make sure a good release exists. However, I'll try to introduce part of the patches which have been merged in -rc1 with great care. This will also help ensuring the quality of 2.6.11 releases. To mark the difference, I'm now just adding some little updates (the bugs fixed don't bite most user, you get a non-booting UML in some strange compilation environments, or a perfect UML, nothing in the middle) to -bb4 and calling the updated tree "-bs" (Blaisorblade Stable), while preserving the numbering (i.e. -bs5 will be next version, it is on my web-site pending testing but I'm adding further patches, so you'll see -bs6 announced). Updating to -bs5 from -bb4 isn't worth if -bb4 works for you. Bye -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
