UML patch list - SKAS and guest ones.

Here I provide:

• Host patches:
  • host patches (skas+sysemu) for 2.6.
  • a host patch (skas+sysemu) for 2.4.25 vanilla kernels and successive ones (since the 2.4.19 one on the main UML site does not apply any more and needs some changes)
• Guest patches:
  • some stable guest(UML) patches for 2.4.27 kernel and later releases (the so-called "2.4-bs" tree), aimed at maximum stability
  • some guest(UML) patches for 2.6 kernel,(the so-called "2.6-bb" tree), which I wrote or collected on the mailing lists and which have not yet been accepted in mainline.

Host patches

I update the SKAS patch frequently, to fix bugs or to make it apply to new kernel releases. Since SKAS3-v2 it also contains the SYSEMU patch from Laurent Vivier, so it is really a SKAS+SYSEMU patch, but it's still called SKAS; I also update the SYSEMU code regularly, to add bugfixes and improvements.

The latest release is SKAS3-2.6-v7, released on 29 October. It is available for Linux kernel >=2.6.7. You can find it by browsing the archives.

For releases older than 2.6.7, it is not available. You can find older versions in the archives, but you should really upgrade. If you cannot upgrade for a good reason (there aren't :-), but you may prove me wrong), please drop me a mail, and I may backport the patch. As an alternative, you may use SKAS3-V1 for 2.6.3/.4/.5 or -V6 for 2.6.6, but there are a lot of known bugs (and the first one does not include the SYSEMU patch).

For more info about the changes between the various patch revisions, you may take a look at the changelog.

I provide a 2.4.25/.26/.27-host-SKAS3 patch: use it like the normal skas3 patch. Note that you do not any more need to activate '/proc/mm': if you want to disable it, unapply the patch, since without that option on the patch has never been working (and I did not fix this).

The latest release is SKAS3-2.4-v3, released on 12 September 2004. It also contains the SYSEMU patch. You can find it in the archives.

For more info about the changes between the various patch revisions, you may take a look at the changelog.

Guest patches

You can find both 2.6-bb and 2.4-bs. Those are patchset providing new bugfixes, even critical ones. For details about what they contain, take a look at the changelogs.

They must be applied on top of the vanilla kernel they are for.

For these ones, instead, download uml-patch-2.4.24-1base.patch.bz2, apply it on a 2.4.27 kernel and apply on top of it the latest -bs release, which currently is 2.4.27-1bs.

Guest patches - splitout form

They are also available in split-out form (browse the broken-out folder or download *broken-out-tar.bz2) under this folder. To automate the handling of the splitout version, you can use patch-scripts - see here to find more info about them.

Here you can find some instructions about using patch-scripts: it is the complete announce of 2.4.24-2um splitout release, I posted onto the mailing lists.

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