ANNOUNCE: Hurd on L4 project setup at Savannah

2002-03-12 Thread Ian Duggan
added to the project. -- Ian ~~ Ian Duggan[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ianduggan.net ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: new l4-hurd.html (was: OSKit-Mach documentation)

2002-02-18 Thread Ian Duggan
ot of text on the page. It would be nice if it could be organized into sections. -- Ian ~~~~~~~~~~ Ian Duggan[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ianduggan.net __

Re: serial port not working correctly (you better read it if you want PPP)

2002-01-02 Thread Ian Duggan
as long as "data ready" is enabled. The Hurd code seems to be doing the same thing as the corresponding Linux code. It still sounds like flow control is kicking in somewhere along the line and isn't being disabled when appropriate. -- Ian ~~~~

Re: serial port not working correctly (you better read it if you want PPP)

2002-01-02 Thread Ian Duggan
ssued if the time between bytes being received exceeds the timeout value. The hardware is a little smarter than just issuing an interrupt at a regular interval. -- Ian ~~~~~~~~~~ Ian Duggan

Re: serial port not working correctly (you better read it if you want PPP)

2002-01-02 Thread Ian Duggan
n the SERIAL Howto. http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html --Ian -- ~~~~~~ Ian Duggan[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ianduggan.net

Re: tar file system

2001-12-22 Thread Ian Duggan
> Be careful about one thing: if the same file occurs more than once in > the archive, you must use the *last* occurrence, not the first, as the > contents of the file. That might require scanning through the whole > archive. Scan the archive in reverse. :) -- Ian ---

Re: emulating no-senders notifications in L4?

2001-11-12 Thread Ian Duggan
oesn't provide that, whatever does can clean the ports too. This must be the way. I took a quick look over the L4 manuals to try to find a way to be notified of task death, but I didn't see anything obvious. There must be some sort of notification involved though, right?

Re: L4Mach or Refactor Hurd Servers?

2001-11-12 Thread Ian Duggan
nOS to Solaris, and weren't about to accept another switch. Google gave stuff when searching for "spring os", "spring doors", and "linux doors". A key thing to note, it looks like Doors is similar to Mach ports in that it is handled in the kernel. We could of c

Re: L4Mach or Refactor Hurd Servers?

2001-11-11 Thread Ian Duggan
estigating. I'm unfamiliar with Doors. I found a few pages about an old "Doors on Linux" implementation that was abandoned for "general lack of interest". Where could I find more info on this? -- Ian ~~ Ian

Re: L4Mach or Refactor Hurd Servers?

2001-11-06 Thread Ian Duggan
re they currently use gnumachs'. I understand what would be required for (1) better, so initially it seems attractive. However, as you pointed out, I don't see how useful that would be as a resulting system. I think I will work on (2) and see where I can get to. --

L4Mach or Refactor Hurd Servers?

2001-11-05 Thread Ian Duggan
urd to a Mach style microkernel. -- Ian ~~~~~~~~~~ Ian Duggan[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ianduggan.net ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Minimal Hurd

2001-10-23 Thread Ian Duggan
Hi, I'm working to try to get the Hurd running on the L4 microkernel. What is required for a minimal Hurd system? -- Ian ~~~~~~ Ian Duggan[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iandugga

Hurd and glibc

2001-10-22 Thread Ian Duggan
there Hurd specific changes to glibc, and how long does it take them to make it back to the the Debian source version? Is there a list of patches against glibc that need to be maintained for the Hurd to work properly? -- Ian ~~ Ian

Hurd on L4 Project

2001-10-11 Thread Ian Duggan
Where should code for a Hurd on L4 project be placed? Would these types of changes be something for bug-hurd? -- Ian ~~ Ian Duggan[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ianduggan.net

Re: plex86 and GNU Mach

2001-06-29 Thread Ian Duggan
> > ...plex86... > > What's plex86? It's a project, formerly FreeMWare, that aims to build an emulator for x86 stuff. They already have a couple of OSes working on it. Some of us are trying to get the Hurd on it. The benefit is that you'd be able to work on the Hurd from Linux, without needing