UML support for Itanium?

I've been meaning to ask the question, but never seem to get around to it.

Now that the UML "support" bits are in Linus' 2.5 tree, isn't it time to get more serious about UML for Itanium?

Every now and then it seems someone pops up who takes a whack at it, and then after a while there's no further word....

UML (despite the acronym overloading) makes a pretty handy test environment, you can sandbox all sort of experiments that might be somewhat intrusive otherwise. For example, I use it on ia32 to run a restricted (LSB-only) environment for application conformance testing.

Folks have developed ways to build/test driver code without rebuilding/rebooting the host kernel, as a jail for web applications, and so on.

Thoughts?

Mats> Now that the UML "support" bits are in Linus' 2.5 tree, isn't Mats> it time to get more serious about UML for Itanium?

Check this discussion. Should be of interest to you:

http://www.gelato.org/community/reply.php?entry3

--david

It's not just UML support. All of UML is there.

If this is more than a personal desire on your part, and Intel has some desire for UML/IA64 and is willing to throw some money at the problem, then I can certainly talk about contracting to do it.

Jeff