Re: Please remove util-vserver from mips and mipsel arches.

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> retitle 334283 RM: util-vserver [mips mipsel] -- RoM; Porting issues
> tags 334283 moreinfo
> thanks
> 
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 09:08:05PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I would like you to remove util-vserver from mips and mipsel
> > architectures. The obvious reason is that it do not build there.
> > The more hidden reason is that previously it did actually build
> > but as the build script fall back to i386 syscall it did not work.
> > 
> > So becuase it can not work on mips and mipsel anyway I would really
> > like you to remove this package from these two architectures.
> > 
> > # out of date on mips: util-vserver (from 0.30.207-11)
> > # out of date on mipsel: util-vserver (from 0.30.207-11)
> 
> MIPS porters, can you please comment?

The vserver support (including the vserver syscall) is still
unimplemented in current development kernels, and I'm not aware of
ongoing efforts to implement it. IOW, util-vserver isn't useful on
mips/mipsel.


Thiemo