Re: Usermodelinux for ppc

[Saladino <arkato@gmail.com>]

On 5/7/06, Stefano Melchior <stefano.melchior@openlabs.it> wrote:
> On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 12:59:34PM +0200, Saladino wrote:
> Hi Saladino,
> > After trying qemu I am now trying uml. I cannot compile it because it
> > searches the subarch as powerpc and the Makefile that exists is
> > Makefile-ppc, not Makefile-powerpc.
> > May I have troubles if I do SUBARCH=ppc ?
> > I am doing something wrong?
> I am Stefano (http://alioth.debian.org/pkg-uml) one of the UML
> maintainer team for debian.
> I can not build a uml kernel for ppc because the uml patches officially
> in the kernel tree are only for i386 and amd64.
> There were some try to create a uml patches for ppc, Chris Emerson did one
> for 2.4.6 and Aswin Tanugula for 2.6.12.
I see.
So, if I download the 2.6.12 kernel and apply the Tanugulas patch i
could run uml in my actual system(with 2.6.17-rc3 kernel) or it does
matter what is the hosts kernel?
Thanks for your time.
Saladino