Re: [Vserver] Re: about Vserver for ARM

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Thu 01 Mar 2007 - 21:04:30 GMT
Message-ID: <20070301210430.GC15791@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 01:51:20PM -0500, Wenbin Zhang wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>
> I want to run the Vserver on Moto E680i cell phone, which is an ARM
> chip, specically the Intel XScale-Bulverde chip. I guess Vserver
> should be able to support this architecture. I downloaded the E680i
> kernel souce code from:
> https://opensource.motorola.com/sf/frs/do/downloadFile/projects.a780e680/frs.a780_e680_source.a780_e680/frs1003?dl=1

sounds good!

> However, all the Vserver patches on
> http://ftp.linux-vserver.org/pub/kernel/vs1.2/ cannot match the
> E680i linux 2.4 source code. There are lots of conflicts.

not unexpected, it's quite old and doesn't probably fit
what you need for the E680i ...

the main question is, are you sure you want to go with
the 2.4 kernel instead of 2.6? I know, arm support is
not the best in Linux, especially as there are many
different hardware vendors with quite different ideas
how the arch support should look like ...

> Could you let me know where to download the ARM kernel source
> code and the corresponding Vserver patch? Thank you very much!

well, here are the good news, the 2.6 patches will
work on arm quite well, so given that you can go with
2.6 on your sub-arch, that would simplify it a lot

there are also good news when you have to stick with
2.4 for whatever reason, and it basically boils down
to the fact that Linux-VServer is quite hardware
agnostic, so I do not think it would be too hard to
adapt the patches to your vendor specific tree ...

so for example I could imagine to adapt the patches
for your specific branch if you send me a phone for
testing it :)

best,
Herbert

> Thanks,
> Wenbin

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