<br><font size=2><tt>Arnd Bergmann wrote on 20.02.2006 18:26:25:<br>
> On Friday 17 February 2006 09:39, Paul Mackerras wrote:<br>
> > Utz Bacher writes:<br>
> > <br>
> > > +#ifndef CONFIG_PPC_SYSTEMSIM<br>
> > > noctty
= 1;<br>
> > > +#endif<br>
> > <br>
> > Why is this awful hack necessary?<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> It's not. It's just a workaround to boot systemsim without<br>
> any sort of /sbin/init logic that sets ctty.<br>
> <br>
> I actually though we had removed that hack earlier.<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>The idea was to keep the system simulator environment
very small, no login</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>etc. It shouldn't go really into a proper kernel.
What we missed to point</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>out (probably for all of the four patches) and I take
that, is that this</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>should be used when packages for such environments
are built ready for use,</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>like our friends at http://www.bsc.es/; it is however
not a thing that</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>should go in somewhere else, the kernel or such, and
finally should</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>disappear.</tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>Utz</tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>:wq</tt></font>