Pavel Kačer, le Mon 11 Apr 2011 23:00:11 +0200, a écrit : > I am a tester and c and Java developer and I would like to see Hurd > become usable GNU kernel. I saw a "help needed" add for the Hurd package > and I would like to be somehow useful. > Though I am not a kernel developer I am a skilful programmer and I think > I might get into it quickly. My problem is I do not have much time now. > But I will have more time later (two or three months perhaps). So maybe > to start with something close to the add (see below) - not very time > consuming - to get some idea about the stuff? > > Here is the link of the help proposal: > http://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewjob.php?group_id=30&job_id=462
Like Thomas, I don't think it's particularly small. What can be small and immediately useful, however, is porting console-setup to the Mach console, I've posted the following on debian-hurd some time ago: “If somebody has time to spend on a small and not-too-hard project, it would be useful to add gnumach keymap support to console-setup. It should be mostly a matter of translating the console-setup keyboard format into the struct kbentry format (from gnumach's kd.h, see kd.c's key_map array for the default value), opening the kd device (see pc_kbd_start in hurd/console-client/pc-kbd.c for an example that opens kbd, simply replace kbd with kd), and call device_set_status(dev, KDSKBENT, &entry, 2) for each key map definition. Note: use the kd.h and kd.c from the git repository, I've cleaned them a bit.” Samuel
