Re: The Hurd: what is it?

2005-11-09 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
> > Note that some version of L4 consumed 4 TLB entries for one IPC: 2 > that were the same for every kernel interrupt. 1 for the source > thread. 1 for the destination thread. It is hard to do better than Using a bigger ('super') page the kernel interrupt stuff can be mapped using only 1 TLB

Re: Mach ports use

2002-10-29 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:53:27PM +0100, Niels Möller wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neal H. Walfield) writes: > > > The client would make a container containing the pages and give the > > server access to the container. Then the server would map the pages > > in the container, build a packet and s

Re: GNU Mach 2's serial console doesn't work?

2002-11-06 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:51:51PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Hi, > > I just tried to boot OSKit Mach with a serial console. It doesn't work > anymore! Has anybody got it to work recently, or can reproduce this bug? > Does anybody have two serial cables to debug this? (Else I have to buy

Re: 2nd attemt at reviving the filesystem limit discussion.

2002-12-06 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:46:13PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:05:13AM +0100, M. Gerards wrote: > > Another thing I wonder: Why do memory > > objects have a maximum size of 4GB? Isn't it possible to create a memory object > > with the size of the entire store and u

Re: 2nd attemt at reviving the filesystem limit discussion.

2002-12-06 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:52:52AM -0600, Tom Hart wrote: > Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:46:13PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > >>The reason for the limit is because the address space on IA32 architecture > >>is 32 bit.

Re: 2nd attemt at reviving the filesystem limit discussion.

2002-12-06 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 03:53:42PM -0500, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > 64-bit systems do not necessarily give you 64-bits of virtual address > space (even discounting the kernel's area). Alpha, for instance, only > gives you 43 bits. There are real practical reasons for doing this: > the page tables

Program for Embedded & Kernel Development at fosdem 2003

2003-01-28 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
Dear all, Fosdem 2003 will be held 8 and 9 february 2003 in Brussels. See http://www.fosdem.org for more info. The program for the Embedded & Kernel Development Room at fosdem 2003 : Saturday 8/2/2003 = 14:00 - 14:45 : Keynote opencores.org : free hardware develo

console on oskit-mach

2003-02-16 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
Hi, I'm trying to get marcus' console to run on hurd with oskit mach. I get an illegal instruction exception at the first outb instruction. It seems the process does not have the correct I/O permissions to access the VGA card. Has anyone tried this before ? I'm running the latest version which is

Re: console on oskit-mach

2003-02-18 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
Hi Marcus, On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:18:29PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:29:26PM +0100, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to get marcus' console to run on hurd with oskit mach. I get > > an

Re: creation time as Hurd extension?

2003-07-18 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 04:56:15AM -0500, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Hi, > > what about having the creation time of a file as an Hurd extension, which is > maintained across copies, like the author? > In that case, why not add an extended attribute scheme ? So everyone can add whatever metadata h

Re: SVGA console

2003-08-17 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 04:55:00PM +0200, Niels M?ller wrote: > Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For better VGA support I want to add some features. First I'd like to > > add modeline support. This is how SVGATextMode, Xfree, svgalib, > > etc. setup a videomode. This is really easy

Re: SVGA console

2003-08-22 Thread Peter &#x27;p2' De Schrijver
Hi Marco, On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:02:32AM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Currently the console client only support (minimally) VGA. It it not > > really hard to add some more VGA support and even basic SVGA support. > > Today I wrote

Re: SVGA console

2003-08-27 Thread Peter &#x27;p2' De Schrijver
Hi Marco, On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:52:42PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Hi, > > "Peter 'p2' De Schrijver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > struct syncinfo { > > enum { SPLIT_SYNC, CSYNC, SYNC_ON_COLOR } type; > > union { &

Chaos Congress 2003

2003-11-30 Thread Peter &#x27;p2' De Schrijver
Hi, Anyone going to the Chaos Congress in Berlin this year ? Cheers, Peter. signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: Screensaver support for the Hurd console

2005-01-09 Thread Peter &#x27;p2' De Schrijver
Hi, > Hi, > > As some of you might remember, I sent in a patch for screensaver > support for the Hurd console. I am resurrecting that patch now. > > All work has mostly be done. At the moment my biggest doubt is how to > configure the screensaver support when starting the console client. I >