Re: Early boot raw device access timing?

2025-07-03 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 4/07/25 03:40, Milos Nikic wrote: Hi all, I’m working on a user-space metadata journaling layer for libdiskfs and have run into a boot-time issue I hope to get guidance on. The goal is to capture metadata changes very early in the boot process — ideally even before fsck — and flush them t

Re: [web:minor updates 1/3] add more detail to the resource management page

2024-10-17 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 17/10/24 19:06, jbra...@dismail.de wrote: diff --git a/open_issues/resource_management_problems.mdwn b/open_issues/resource_management_problems.mdwn index daf97954..51025d34 100644 --- a/open_issues/resource_management_problems.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/resource_management_problems.mdwn +Thes

Re: [web:add translator pages 12/15] add translator/devnode page.

2024-10-16 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 17/10/24 12:30, jbranso wrote: + +[[!tag stable_URL]] + +`devnode` is the Hurd devnode translator. I would guess that means it provides access to system devices under the path "/dev" ? Cheers Amos

Re: [web:add translator pages 01/15] add translator/streamio page

2024-10-16 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 17/10/24 12:30, jbranso wrote: diff --git a/hurd/translator/streamio.mdwn b/hurd/translator/streamio.mdwn new file mode 100644 index ..9f1de6ec --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/streamio.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] + +

Re: [PATCH rust] Add new target for GNU/Hurd

2023-07-09 Thread Amos Jeffries
Yay! :-) Armchair review comments inline.. On 9/07/23 22:05, Damien Zammit wrote: This is not quite right for library/std, but applies clean to a 2021 tree of rust on hash 25ea6be13e3 and allows up to the following stage1 build until libstd breaks on hurd, (with the other patch for rust-libc).

Re: [PATCH] Updated information about the rump kernels, and included a guide on how to use them on the Debian qemu image.

2023-05-22 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 23/05/2023 5:23 am, Joshua Branson wrote: Sergey Bugaev writes: Hi, On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 6:49 PM jbra...@dismail.de wrote: +upgrade to the bleeding edge Debian GNU/Hurd: + + $ wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-ports-archive-keyring/debian-ports-archive-keyring_2023

Re: [PATCH] faq/64-bit.mdwn: added up to date 64-bit porting info open_issues/64-bit_port.mdwn: added up to date 64-bit porting info

2023-05-13 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 14/05/2023 7:01 am, jbranso wrote: May 13, 2023 1:46 PM, "Sergey Bugaev" wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 7:38 PM jbranso wrote: +Hurd developers are adding 64-bit support, and they plan to drop the +32-bit support, once the 64-bit support is deemed stable. Is this really the plan? :( Has

Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] hurd: Implement O_TMPFILE

2022-12-12 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 13/12/2022 12:46 am, Sergey Bugaev wrote: @@ -90,6 +95,21 @@ __file_name_lookup_at (int fd, int at_flags, } } + if ((orig_flags & __O_TMPFILE) == __O_TMPFILE) +{ + /* What we have looked up is not the file iteself, but actually s/iteself/itself.\/ + th

Re: [PATCH] mig: explicitly use -std=gnu11

2022-11-24 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 24/11/2022 5:41 am, Flavio Cruz wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 11:51:36AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Flavio Cruz, le mer. 23 nov. 2022 00:10:10 -0500, a ecrit: Latest GCC will pick up gnu17 by default but gnu11 will be better supported with older compilers. Mmm, but why explicitly reque

Re: [PATCH] hurd/translator/httpfs.mdwn: I added a Intro, how to use, and TODO section. hurd/translator/xmlfs.mdwn: I added a How to use and TODO wishlist section.

2020-09-10 Thread Amos Jeffries
Sorry, not quite. :( On 10/09/20 11:49 am, Joshua Branson wrote: > + > +# settrans -a tmp/ /hurd/httpfs > https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/index.html > + "https://"; is not supported sadly. Just "http://"; scheme. Amos

Re: [PATCH] httpfs: fix HEAD request message

2020-09-09 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 10/09/20 5:16 am, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Amos Jeffries, le jeu. 10 sept. 2020 04:16:54 +1200, a ecrit: >> The HEAD request used to fetch metadata about a file via HTTP >> contains a trailing 0x20 character which will cause modern HTTP/1.1 >> servers to reject the r

[PATCH] httpfs: fix HEAD request message

2020-09-09 Thread Amos Jeffries
The HEAD request used to fetch metadata about a file via HTTP contains a trailing 0x20 character which will cause modern HTTP/1.1 servers to reject the request. === RCS file: /sources/hurdextras/httpfs/http.c,v retrieving revision 1.3

Re: [PATCH] hurd/translator/httpfs.mdwn: I added a Intro, how to use, and TODO section. hurd/translator/xmlfs.mdwn: I added a How to use and TODO wishlist section.

2020-09-09 Thread Amos Jeffries
With my hat on as an IETF HTTPbis WG member. Here are some editorial nits in regards to HTTP protocol things being mentioned ... On 10/09/20 2:29 am, Joshua Branson wrote: > I copied most of the text from the Hurd extras repos. > --- > hurd/translator/httpfs.mdwn | 68 +

Re: [PATCH] SMP initialization: detection and enumeration OFF TOPIC PRAISE

2020-08-11 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 12/08/20 12:17 am, Almudena Garcia wrote: >> You can use b (break) within a git rebase session to stop at some point. >> That way you can stop before the big change, commit part of it, and use >> git rebase --continue, and let git discover that part of the big change >> is already there and drop

Re: [PATCH] SMP initialization: detection and enumeration OFF TOPIC PRAISE

2020-08-11 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 11/08/20 11:57 pm, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Almudena Garcia, le mar. 11 août 2020 13:45:19 +0200, a ecrit: >>> P.S.  You might be interested in using the program git send-email. >>> Apparently it makes it really easy to send in a patches series.  It's >>> actually what GNU Guix contributing guid

Re: Wiki Edits: a smattering of small changes

2018-12-16 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 17/12/18 10:56 am, Joshua Branson wrote: > Amos Jeffries writes: > >> On 16/12/18 6:17 am, Almudena Garcia wrote: >>> Can you add a new FAQ about 64 bit support? >>> Or, if exists, modify It to add this link >>> https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ope

Re: Wiki Edits: a smattering of small changes

2018-12-16 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 16/12/18 6:17 am, Almudena Garcia wrote: > Can you add a new FAQ about 64 bit support? > Or, if exists, modify It to add this link > https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/64-bit_port.html > The rebootstrap link on that page is outdated and now a 404. The job name should be "rebootstrap

Re: Hurd Fork: Announcement & Invitation

2018-07-20 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 21/07/18 09:37, Ranvijay Kumar Vijay wrote: > Dear All, > > I've created a HURD Bazaar fork, Er, are you aware that "Bazaar" is already taken by a VCS system? it is going to be very confusing to have something called a "Bazaar fork" when it is actually a git fork, not managed by Bazaar. > be

Re: Enable SMP support

2018-06-14 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 15/06/18 10:31, Almudena Garcia wrote: > Yes, I concluded the same a few hours ago. I tried to edit > kern/cpu_number.h, to add a new definition with many cores, at this form > > int master_cpu; /* 'master' processor - keeps time */ > > #if (NCPUS == 1) >     /* cpu number is a

Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

2018-06-08 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 09/06/18 04:53, Joshua Branson wrote: > Amos Jeffries writes: > >> On 08/06/18 04:58, Joshua Branson wrote: >>> >>> I would actually recommend that you just run the Hurd in qemu. Most, if >>> not all, of the main Hurd developers just run the Hurd in

Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

2018-06-08 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 08/06/18 04:58, Joshua Branson wrote: > > I would actually recommend that you just run the Hurd in qemu. Most, if > not all, of the main Hurd developers just run the Hurd inside qemu. > > Also a cool idea! I believe I read somewhere that it possible to have > the Hurd running in qemu, but ma

Re: [PATCH] hurd libpthread: Copyright blurb updates

2018-03-01 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 02/03/18 03:45, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Amos Jeffries, on ven. 02 mars 2018 03:37:17 +1300, wrote: >> Joseph also asked in the other thread for "Contributed by" lines not to >> be added in new files. There are a few in this code, but the files >> creation are

[PATCH] hurd libpthread: Copyright blurb updates

2018-03-01 Thread Amos Jeffries
This patch updates the copyright blurbs in libpthread repository to match upstream glibc requested format. Specific changes are: * use -2018 for copyright dates * replace obsolete FSF address with current gnu.org URL reference from glibc. Joseph also asked in the other thread for "Contri

Re: [PATCH] hurd: add gscope support

2018-03-01 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 01/03/18 14:23, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Joseph Myers, on jeu. 01 mars 2018 01:17:18 +, wrote: >> Missing spaces before '(' in the calls to atomic_increment, > > etc. > > Can people _please_ help me with all these? (not only on that patch, but > on the whole set of patches which we *DO* n

Re: Glibc port: commit clenup

2018-02-19 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 20/02/18 11:03, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Samuel Thibault, on lun. 19 févr. 2018 19:04:57 +0100, wrote: >> See the branches there, they already exist. >> >>> and ask you to commit upstream upstream? >> >> If it was a matter of committing, that'd be done already... See what I >> wrote on 18 Jan 20

flock() LOCK_UN support on Hurd

2017-11-22 Thread Amos Jeffries
r, are there any alternatives available on Hurd? Amos Jeffries

Re: [GSoC 2017] IPv6

2017-07-06 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 07/07/17 03:19, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Nice progress :) Joan Lledó, on dim. 02 juil. 2017 10:29:33 +0200, wrote: the stack offers the option of using DAD[2] to check if the address is already in use. This isn't likely to happen, since the interface identifier is based on the link add

Re: Booting/Installing Debian Hurd from DVD not possible

2015-12-18 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 19/12/2015 6:53 a.m., Samuel Thibault wrote: > David Renz, on Fri 18 Dec 2015 18:49:11 +0100, wrote: >> if it really wouldn't be supported by Debian Hurd, then the installation >> process couldn't even reach that stage, isn't it? > > Yes it would: loading the kernel and initrd is done by grub t