Re: Patch to support drivers compiled into the kernel

[Kay Sievers <kay sievers vrfy org>]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 20:32, Bill C Riemers <briemers redhat com> wrote:
> Bill C Riemers wrote:
>> OK.  If I need to go and patch coLinux, I will.   But what are the
>> correct values?   There is no PCI/USB/PCMCMIA device.

Yeah, right. This is not handled.

> > This is
>> virtual.   Do I need to invent a dummy driver and label it as the parent?

> BTW.  Does anyone know how network drivers are handled in other UML
> implementations?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux

They do the same, I guess.

> Do the other implementations define a dummy bus, or do they fail with
> NetworkManager as well?

Xen provides a "xen" bus, which HAL explicitly knows about. All other
implementations, which do not provide qemu-like emulated hardware,
will not work with HAL/NetworkManager, I guess.

Kay