Here is another "weekly" update, only 2 weeks late.
The uml kernel should soon be usable under severn (more details are below), so we should be able to start work or other issues such as kernel configuration and packaging, and uml installation shortly. I have also started a yum repository, currently it contains a kernel-utils package with updated uml tools.
Michael Young
UML project site: http://toast.debian.net/~may/umlproject/
UML kernel status -----------------
I understand the problem which causes uml kernels to crash under a severn host kernel, and this will hopefully be fixed in the main uml patches shortly. See http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3110830&forum_id=... for details of the problem.
The crash of a uml kernel when running under a 2.6 host kernel in tt mode is fixed in the main 2.4 uml patches (from 2.4.22-2um onwards), and will hopefully be fixed in 2.6 soon.
The problems with tls in the uml image are still there, and will probably remain at least until someone writes set_thread_area and get_thread_area syscalls for uml, but hiding /lib/tls in the uml image works around the problem for now.
In addition, networking is fixed in the 2.6.0.test5-1 uml patch, though modules are still broken.