Re: Release notes (was: GSoC application deadline passed)

2008-03-21 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
El Thursday, 20 de March de 2008 12:42:33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > Well, for 0.3, the amount of changes is so great that it probably > doesn't make much sense to list them all. Rather, the release notes > should only contain a general description of the status; what doesn't > work, and what wo

Re: Release notes (was: GSoC application deadline passed)

2008-03-21 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Arne Babenhauserheide dies 21/03/2008 hora 12:08: > To do it efficiently, I'll need an account at the hurd box to be able > to work directly on the git repository (instead of waiting minutes for > my changes to be saved). Not that you can also clone and pull by HTTP, and send the patches

Re: Release notes (was: GSoC application deadline passed)

2008-03-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 03:59:47PM +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Clearly, documentation is a problem with the Hurd. It's incomplete, > scattered and stale. Working on it is helpful, if done appropriately. In any case, IMHO the most useful documentation improvements would be in the Hurd manual and

Yet Another GSoC Project Ideas Post

2008-03-21 Thread Mohammed Gamal
Hello Everyone, I'm Mohammed Gamal, a Computer Science student at Cairo University, and I'm intending to apply for GSoC this year. I saw the ideas page and I'm interested in a bunch of them from here, so I'd like to discuss some of these with you here. 1- procfs This sounds like a very interesting

Re: Yet Another GSoC Project Ideas Post

2008-03-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mohammed Gamal, le Fri 21 Mar 2008 19:26:54 +0200, a écrit : > 2- Driver Glue code > The idea description is quite obvious, again the question here is > again of experience. I have basic knowledge about Linux device > drivers, do you think it'd be feasible to apply for this one? You'd have a fairl

Virtualization and HURD, another GSoC idea

2008-03-21 Thread Mohammed Gamal
Hello everyone, I'm sorry not to mention this in my first mail, I just forgot it, so I apologize. Back to the point, perhaps you know that new CPUs from Intel and AMD add support to virtualization in hardware, and work has been done to incorporate this support in the Linux kernel through the KVM p

Re: Yet Another GSoC Project Ideas Post

2008-03-21 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mohammed Gamal, le Fri 21 Mar 2008 19:26:54 +0200, a écrit : > > > 2- Driver Glue code > > The idea description is quite obvious, again the question here is > > again of experience. I have basic knowledge about Linux de

Re: Virtualization and HURD, another GSoC idea

2008-03-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mohammed Gamal, le Fri 21 Mar 2008 19:35:15 +0200, a écrit : > My questions is, how feasible would be the idea to create something > like that for the GNU/Hurd, should this support be added to the core > kernel, or should it be supported by userspace applications (e.g > through an emulator like QEM

Re: Virtualization and HURD, another GSoC idea

2008-03-21 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Mohammed Gamal dies 21/03/2008 hora 19:35: > My questions is, how feasible would be the idea to create something > like that for the GNU/Hurd, should this support be added to the core > kernel, or should it be supported by userspace applications (e.g > through an emulator like QEMU). Anoth

Re: Virtualization and HURD, another GSoC idea

2008-03-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Pierre THIERRY, le Fri 21 Mar 2008 19:50:51 +0100, a écrit : > Scribit Mohammed Gamal dies 21/03/2008 hora 19:35: > > My questions is, how feasible would be the idea to create something > > like that for the GNU/Hurd, should this support be added to the core > > kernel, or should it be supported by