From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com> To: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: user-mode port 0.44-2.4.7 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 00:08:04 -0500 The user-mode port of 2.4.7 is available. In a minor packaging breakthrogh, a .deb for UML is now available. The UML block driver now supports a read-write COW layer above a shared read-only filesystem. This allows multiple UMLs to boot off the same filesystem. See http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/shared_fs.html for more information. The ppc port is now fully merged. The pid file and mconsole socket are now located in a directory defined by the UML umid. There is now IO memory emulation. This allows a host file to be mapped by a UML driver, which can provide whatever interface it wants to that file to UML processes. This is a first step towards doing hardware driver development under UML. gdbs are now killed properly. A nasty bug involving a misunderstanding with FASTCALL was fixed. Block devices and network devices are now pluggable from the mconsole - they can be added to and removed from a running system. See http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/mconsole.html for more information. SIGHUP no longer causes UML to go crazy. The project's home page is http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net Downloads are available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=429 ftp://ftp.nl.linux.org/pub/uml/ http://uml-pub.ists.dartmouth.edu/uml/ Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/