uml: drop target

Sergey Ryazanov ryazanov.s.a at gmail.com
Fri Oct 8 12:41:33 PDT 2021


On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 10:17 PM Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org> wrote:
> On 10/8/21 5:54 AM, Sergey Ryazanov wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I tried to compile it the other day and the Kernel wouldn't compile.
> Since we want Kernel 5.10 only for the next release UML needs a
> (working) bump to 5.10 or will be dropped.
>
> Could you have a look at it?

Yep, I will check it as soon as I finish ath25 migration.

-- 
Sergey



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