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From: Manbing <manbing3@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Manbing <manbing3@gmail.com>,
	linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: update UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 01:19:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1582391968-3960-1-git-send-email-manbing3@gmail.com> (raw)

Original content is obsolete. Which is based on kernel 2.4.0-prerelease.
Updating content according to kernel 5.5.1.

Signed-off-by: Manbing <manbing3@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/virt/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt | 42 +++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/virt/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt
index 87b80f5..08ee28d 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virt/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
   User Mode Linux HOWTO
   User Mode Linux Core Team
-  Mon Nov 18 14:16:16 EST 2002
+  Mon Feb 10 08:27:24 EST 2020
 
   This document describes the use and abuse of Jeff Dike's User Mode
   Linux: a port of the Linux kernel as a normal Intel Linux process.
@@ -215,26 +215,17 @@
 
 
   Compiling the user mode kernel is just like compiling any other
-  kernel.  Let's go through the steps, using 2.4.0-prerelease (current
+  kernel.  Let's go through the steps, using 5.5.1 (current
   as of this writing) as an example:
 
 
-  1. Download the latest UML patch from
-
-     the download page <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/
-
-     In this example, the file is uml-patch-2.4.0-prerelease.bz2.
-
-
-  2. Download the matching kernel from your favourite kernel mirror,
+  1. Download the matching kernel from your favourite kernel mirror,
      such as:
 
-     ftp://ftp.ca.kernel.org/pub/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.0-prerelease.tar.bz2
-     <ftp://ftp.ca.kernel.org/pub/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.0-prerelease.tar.bz2>
-     .
+     wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/linux-5.5.1.tar.xz
 
 
-  3. Make a directory and unpack the kernel into it.
+  2. Make a directory and unpack the kernel into it.
 
 
 
@@ -255,31 +246,14 @@
 
 
        host%
-       tar -xzvf linux-2.4.0-prerelease.tar.bz2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-  4. Apply the patch using
-
-
-
-       host%
-       cd ~/uml/linux
-
-
-
-       host%
-       bzcat uml-patch-2.4.0-prerelease.bz2 | patch -p1
+       tar xvf linux-5.5.1.tar.xz
 
 
 
 
 
 
-  5. Run your favorite config; `make xconfig ARCH=um' is the most
+  3. Run your favorite config; `make xconfig ARCH=um' is the most
      convenient.  `make config ARCH=um' and 'make menuconfig ARCH=um'
      will work as well.  The defaults will give you a useful kernel.  If
      you want to change something, go ahead, it probably won't hurt
@@ -293,7 +267,7 @@
 
 
 
-  6. Finish with `make linux ARCH=um': the result is a file called
+  4. Finish with `make linux ARCH=um': the result is a file called
      `linux' in the top directory of your source tree.
 
   Make sure that you don't build this kernel in /usr/src/linux.  On some
-- 
2.7.4


             reply	other threads:[~2020-02-22 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-22 17:19 Manbing [this message]
2020-02-22 18:17 ` [PATCH] Documentation: update UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt Anton Ivanov

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