Am 08.07.2014 11:09, schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Am 08.07.2014 11:03, schrieb Konstantin Khlebnikov: >>> I know. But debugging/profiling of kernel code is much easier when it >>> runs in userspace. >>> I think this is the last use case where uml might beat normal hardware >>> accelerated qemu/kvm. >>> But without SMP and with that high overhead on each syscall and >>> context/mm switch it's mostly useless. >> >> The major use case of UML is that you can run it on hardware without >> KVM support. >> Everyone else is using KVM. > > And that you don't need root permissions to run it. > Which is why I'm still interested in an ARM port. > Need... More... Spare... Time... You can use KVM also without being root. It depends on the rights of /dev/kvm. But yes, an ARM ports would be nice to have. :) Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
