[Buildroot] simicsfs 1.18 does not build with kernel 4.12.2

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Wed Aug 30 09:25:51 UTC 2017


Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:26:59 +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
>
>> The latest simicsfs kernel module (v1.22) supports latest kernel, and
>> is available in the simics open source package.
>
> Is this "simics open source package" publicly available ?
>

Looks no.

>> However they are moving away from the simicsfs kernel module,
>> replacing it with the user mode Simics Agent (Matic). They've seen
>> that the kernel module has required too much maintenance work. For
>> this reason they don't want to encourage use of it.
>
> So, we want to get rid of the simicsfs package in Buildroot ?
>

I think so. Since they do not want new users of SimicsFS I don't think
we want buildroot to automatically include it. Users should move to
the Simics Agent instead. Otherwise they will be stuck supporting
SimicsFS.

Regards,
Bin



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