On 4 March 2014 13:41, Peter Maydell <
address@hidden> wrote:
> On 4 March 2014 11:32, Alex Bennée <
address@hidden> wrote:
> > Is the effect of this to report system uname or minimum whichever is higher?
>
> That's what this patch does. The old configure stuff which
> this patchset removed made it report "always that version",
> IIRC.
Yes, configure indeed has that effect, so with the current ubuntu qemu you get:
qemu-arm ./arm/busybox uname -r
2.6.32
With these patches, qemu will report 2.6.32 or newer, if host kernel is newer.
> >It would be nice to
> > have an upstream fix for the hacks the distros are adding.
> I think that's what this patchset is supposed to be :-)
Yes. The patch 5/5 is heavy hammer to make distributions start
using the new way. Else I fear they will just continue using the
configure flag and their own hacks.
> Only to the extent that they're still carrying bogus patches
> borrowed from the SuSE tree rather than using the better
> way of setting per-arch minumum reported uname that we
> applied upstream.
So you agree these patches are the way to go? If you believe
these are too close to hard freeze, I can just send this list of patches
for merging:
Riku