uml: drop target

Sergey Ryazanov ryazanov.s.a at gmail.com
Fri Oct 8 08:54:20 PDT 2021


Hello Paul,

thank you for posting this to ML.

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 12:05 PM Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org> wrote:
> as previously posted on GitHub[1] I'd like to remove the UML target
> since it seems broken, isn't offered by our buildbots and it's purpose
> for testing can be replaced by using qemu.
>
> Is anyone here actively using UML and would like to keep it?
>
> [1]: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/4643

I personally do not use UML yet. I tested it a few months ago, It
works smoothly and I find it a good lightweight solution for testing
of massive installations like a routing protocol evaluation or a load
testing, etc.

What are the drawbacks of keeping UML?

-- 
Sergey



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