Re: error compiling hurd after gnumach interface change

2010-07-17 Thread Karim Allah Ahmed
> This means that it's still using the mach.defs (it has less arguments than > the new one) which is strange because I've added the new > err. I meant "It's still using the old mach.defs (...) " -- Karim Allah Ahmed.

error compiling hurd after gnumach interface change

2010-07-17 Thread Karim Allah Ahmed
? [ Note there's only one "mach.defs" in my system which is in "/usr/include/mach" ] -- Karim Allah Ahmed.

Re: GSoC IRC meetings, dammit!

2010-05-17 Thread Karim Allah Ahmed
As for the last meeting , I'm really sorry i had an Oral Exam that was supposed to finish before the meeting but it didn't. It's just the pre-final days and everything is rushing :-) And as for the time slot, 10:30 is more appropriate for me. Anyway, I'll be on time on tomorrow's meeting. Sorry a

Karim Allah Ahmed wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

2010-05-01 Thread Karim Allah Ahmed
LinkedIn Karim Allah Ahmed pidió añadirte como contacto en LinkedIn: -- Alejandro, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Karim Allah Ahmed Aceptar invitación de Karim Allah Ahmed http://www.linkedin.

Re: Initial GSoC meeting

2010-04-27 Thread Karim Allah Ahmed
h of course the students can introduce themselfs > if they wish :-) > > We have two students this year in the GNU umbrella: Karim Allah Ahmed > will be working on improving the Mach VM, mentored by Sergio Lopez; and > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort will be systematically triaging problems e

Re: Replacing init_alloc_aligned with a bitmapped allocator

2010-04-16 Thread Karim Allah Ahmed
On 4/15/10, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> -assert(init_alloc_aligned(round_page(len), &addr)); >> +assert(init_alloc_aligned(kernel_cmdline_len, &addr)); > > This is not the same: init_alloc_aligned used to required size aligned > on the page size. > i don't understand this one

Replacing init_alloc_aligned with a bitmapped allocator

2010-04-14 Thread Karim Allah Ahmed
The current "init_alloc_aligned" function will skip regions of memory during an allocation if they aren't of "size" bytes of contigous physical memory , and will never reclaim them later. ( it can't do that with a simple "available_next" ) In addition to the fact that it is unable to reserve any l

Can't use GDB to debug gnumach

2010-04-12 Thread Karim Allah Ahmed
I'm currently trying to debug gnumach running on Qemu with GDB and i did the following >qemu -s /path/to/image/hurd.img (Though QEMU docs said that : "In order to use gdb, launch qemu with the ’-s’ option. It will wait for a gdb connection" , it didn't wait it simply launced grub and gave me the b