Re: Memory management for Gsoc

2011-03-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Maksym Planeta, le Wed 30 Mar 2011 16:51:13 +0300, a écrit : > I'd like to participate in Gsoc this summer and I'm interested in memory > management. I was looking through the code, involved with memory > management, and concluded that kalloc subsystem can be improved. Ideally we should try to foc

Memory management for Gsoc

2011-03-30 Thread Maksym Planeta
Hi, I'd like to participate in Gsoc this summer and I'm interested in memory management. I was looking through the code, involved with memory management, and concluded that kalloc subsystem can be improved. Also I'd like to work upon virtual memory. I've tried to understand virtual memory in Lin

Re: Installing Debian GNU/Hurd in qemu/kvm using the Debian Installer (first draft)

2011-03-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Wed 30 Mar 2011 08:30:13 +0200, a écrit : > Yes, but in the Mach console you cannot do editing easily ?? > (and you have to write this on your local keyboard with the US > keyboard hidden below. easy if wou have a US keyboard, error prone > otherwise (ask me)). See my request

Re: Hurd stabilty: compiling ghc6

2011-03-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Wed 30 Mar 2011 09:18:05 +0200, a écrit : > (I don't think the problem is due to qemu-kvm?) Many problems do come from kvm actually. That's one of the reasons why I prefer to use Xen. > I can of course run the generated makefiles manually, but do not > generally know in which o

Re: [PATCH] gnumach: kalloc: Zone determining and constants optimization

2011-03-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Maksym Planeta, le Wed 30 Mar 2011 08:49:01 +0300, a écrit : > +#define KALLOC_MAP_SIZE 8 * 1024 * 1024 > +#define ZONE_START_ORDER 4 > +#define ZONES_COUNT 12 > +#define ZONE_MAX_ORDER (ZONES_COUNT + ZONE_START_ORDER - 1) > +#define SIZE_BY_ORDER(x) (1UL << (ZONE_START_ORDER + x)) > +#define ZONE_

Re: XKB's keymaps for the Hurd console

2011-03-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Tue 29 Mar 2011 01:57:07 +0200, a écrit : > > However, I couldn't find accurate information about the patches used > > in the current Debian package. > > Hm... We will have to figure out the copyright sitution -- and also, why > these patches aren't upstream yet... Bec

Re: XKB's keymaps for the Hurd console

2011-03-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Tue 29 Mar 2011 23:52:38 +0200, a écrit : > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:32:13PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Diego Nieto Cid, le Mon 28 Mar 2011 18:15:06 -0300, a écrit : > > > > > Rather than copy/pasting ks_table.h, kstoucs.c and symname.c, I'd rather > > > > see

Re: Installing Debian GNU/Hurd in qemu/kvm using the Debian Installer (first draft)

2011-03-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Wed 30 Mar 2011 08:46:02 +0200, a écrit : > > Yes. But knowing whether you're having the issue can be tricky: the boot > > may work fine and it's only when actually doing work that you have the > > issue. > > Added a remark on kernels 2.6.37 and 2.6.38. Well, the thing is that

Re: [GSoC] Implementing libcap

2011-03-30 Thread Esa-Matti Mourujärvi
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:29 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:44:29PM +0300, Esa-Matti Mourujärvi wrote: > >> I'm interested in applying for Hurd in GSoC. I am a second year CS >> student in University of Oulu, Finland. > > Welcome :-) > Hi, and thank you. :-) >> I have knowledge

Re: Paying developers? (was: It may sound stupid...)

2011-03-30 Thread Tanguy LE CARROUR
Hi! 2011/3/30 > First of all, I'm glad you want to help :-) > And still willing to! > Unfortunately, people making such offers tend to underestimate the cost > of software development. It would take a *lot* of donations, [...], as the > FSF is the legal entity behind GNU projects > -- but the

Hurd stabilty: compiling ghc6

2011-03-30 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, I've started the work of getting the Debian ghc6 (and ghc7) packages up to date. This is really a mess I promise you, since ghc is a compiler and is depending on itself. Partial results will be reported later. (Maybe cross compiling is a better solution, time will show.) However, when compili