GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-21 Thread Thomas Schwinge
[Taking this to .] Hello! On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:43:43AM +0100, Leslie P. Polzer wrote: > Da wir gerade beim Thema Hurd waren... ist es richtig und ggf. > beabsichtigt, da? die Debian GNU/Hurd Rescue-CD keinen Bootloader > installiert? Correct, you can't install GRUB from within a GNU/Hurd

Re: rpctrace improvement for the Google Summer of Code

2007-03-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:16:13 +0100, Richard Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [1 ] > [1.1 ] > Hello, > > Here is a proposal for a Google Summer of Code project : rpctrace is one > of the most useful debugging tools on the Hurd. It could help a lot in > understanding some of the bugs of the s

Re: Google Summer of Code project: libchannel

2007-03-21 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:22:12PM +0100, Fredrik Hammar wrote: > first up let me introduce myself [...] Welcome, Fredrik! > get it running on Xen. That basically works, but still has a number of sharp edges and slippery slopes. But for sure we should document how to get it running at

Re: GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Wed 21 Mar 2007 15:37:16 +0100, a écrit : > It's probably no longer worthwhile to do that for GRUB legacy, Maybe as a debian patch at least. Samuel ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bu

maintaining the tool chain

2007-03-21 Thread �R�L而行
Dear Sirs: I am writing to enquire about maintaining the tool chain of the project GNU Hurd. I am interested in this job. My specialty is computer sicience. I would be grateful if you could give me a chance to this job. Yours faithfully, YuanBo ___ Bug-

Re: Google Summer of Code project: libchannel

2007-03-21 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:22:12PM +0100, Fredrik Hammar wrote: >> first up let me introduce myself [...] > > Welcome, Fredrik! > Thanks! >> get it running on Xen. > > That basically works, but still has a number of sharp edges and slippe

Re: a coreutils release is imminent

2007-03-21 Thread Thomas Schwinge
[Cced to .] Hello! On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:41:42PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.8+.tar.gz > http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.8+.tar.gz.sig > > Please build it and run "make -k check" on a few unusual > systems today or tomorrow and report any problems

Re: a coreutils release is imminent

2007-03-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here we go. So far, I didn't run the tests marked as ``root-only'' or > ``very expensive''. Thanks for the detailed feedback! > $ uname -a > GNU flubber 0.3 GNU-Mach 1.3.99/Hurd-0.3 i686-AT386 GNU > | SKIP: 8gb I suppose you already know about the i

Device drivers in Mach?

2007-03-21 Thread leslie . polzer
Hello, when I went to the task page with notes on the coming sound system, I noticed that it's written there that device drivers go into Mach. Why is that? I thought a big point of micro kernels was that a single malfunctioning driver couldn't affect the whole system because it doesn't sit

Re: maintaining the tool chain

2007-03-21 Thread leslie . polzer
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:05:29PM +0800, �R�L而行 wrote: > Dear Sirs: I am writing to enquire about maintaining the tool chain > of the project GNU Hurd. I am interested in this job. My specialty is > computer sicience. I would be grateful if you could give me a chance > to this job. Well... go ahe

Re: GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-21 Thread leslie . polzer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:37:16PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > [Taking this to .] No need to CC me, I happen to be subscribed :) > Correct, you can't install GRUB from within a GNU/Hurd system, But the rescue CD is running GNU/Linux...? Leslie -- NEW homepage: https://viridian.dnsalias

Re: GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
[EMAIL PROTECTED], le Wed 21 Mar 2007 19:46:49 +0100, a écrit : > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:37:16PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > > [Taking this to .] > > No need to CC me, I happen to be subscribed :) You then need to explain that to your mailer for properly setting the Mail-Followup-To: h

Re: Device drivers in Mach?

2007-03-21 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hello Leslie when I went to the task page with notes on the coming sound system, I noticed that it's written there that device drivers go into Mach. Why is that? I thought a big point of micro kernels was that a single malfunctioning driver couldn't affe

Re: GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-21 Thread leslie . polzer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:57:06PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > You then need to explain that to your mailer for properly setting the > Mail-Followup-To: header. Indeed. > > > Correct, you can't install GRUB from within a GNU/Hurd system, > > But the rescue CD is running GNU/Linux...? > > Yes

Re: Device drivers in Mach?

2007-03-21 Thread leslie . polzer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:01:35PM +0200, Constantine Kousoulos wrote: > Your observation is correct. All of Mach's drivers currently reside > inside the kernel. AFAIK, Mach's IPC is too slow to support user > space drivers. Phew. Don't they have that in Minix? I think I remember starting the R

Re: Device drivers in Mach?

2007-03-21 Thread Richard Braun
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:54:24PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:01:35PM +0200, Constantine Kousoulos wrote: > > > Your observation is correct. All of Mach's drivers currently reside > > inside the kernel. AFAIK, Mach's IPC is too slow to support user > > space drive

Re: rpctrace improvement for the Google Summer of Code

2007-03-21 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:16:13PM +0100, Richard Braun wrote: > Here is a proposal for a Google Summer of Code project : rpctrace is > one of the most useful debugging tools on the Hurd. It could help a > lot in understanding some of the bugs of the system. Unfortunately, it > can hardly be

Re: rpctrace improvement for the Google Summer of Code

2007-03-21 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:09:31AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Implementing the possibility of attaching rpctrace to running processes, > is one possible thing that could be done. But there are many others, > like adding ability to rpctrace to show the names of the parameters > (needs