Re: Wiki Edits: adding Richard's comment about mach's memory management issues

2018-11-09 Thread Joshua Branson
Samuel Thibault writes: > Hello, > > Joshua Branson, le mer. 07 nov. 2018 12:00:48 -0500, a ecrit: >> -Just like any 32-bit OS without bad tricks, GNU Mach can not cope well with >> lots >> -of memory. Latest versions of the Debian `gnumach` package will limit >> themselves >> -to around 1.7 G

Wiki Edits: mini edits for the contributing and dde pages.

2018-11-09 Thread Joshua Branson
Thanks, Joshua >From fb3590afda77d5771fd4f19d378cd633be71cd7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 11:52:30 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Some mini edits for the contributing and dde pages. --- contributing/web_pages.mdwn | 7 +-- open_issues/dde.mdwn| 8 ++

Re: Wiki Edits: ascii art on the anatomy of a hurd system page

2018-11-09 Thread Joshua Branson
Samuel Thibault writes: > Hello, > > Joshua Branson, le ven. 02 nov. 2018 12:39:05 -0400, a ecrit: >> I guess I'm a visual learner. I hope some might find this graphic >> helpful. I'm making it it's own patch, because I'm not certain how >> accurate this "image" is. > > It's correct, but could

Wiki Edits: open_issues/pci arbiter

2018-11-09 Thread Joshua Branson
Since the PCI Arbiter was recently merged, I wanted to update the Hurd wiki. The following is a fairly large patch that does just that. The image is one that I stole from Samuel's talk. Thanks, Joshua >From 33b34d67881f945bdc9fa1ff2405bf1f93e20484 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson

Re: Wiki Edits: ascii art on the anatomy of a hurd system page

2018-11-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joshua Branson, le ven. 09 nov. 2018 11:59:31 -0500, a ecrit: > > It's correct, but could be improved: I'd say rather take the example of > > glibc's send(), which is an RPC handled by pfinet, which uses a > > device_write RPC to actually emit an Ethernet frame, which is handled by > > netdde, whic

Re: Wiki Edits: open_issues/pci arbiter

2018-11-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joshua Branson, le ven. 09 nov. 2018 12:12:27 -0500, a ecrit: > Since the PCI Arbiter was recently merged, I wanted to update the Hurd > wiki. Nice, thanks :) Samuel