On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:03:19PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> I started to incorporate the CMU manual pages for Mach into a GNU Mach
> reference manual. This work requries three steps:
>
> 1. Incorporate all of the relevant manual page content into the texi document.
> 2. Go over all GNU Mach interfaces, and verify if the actual definitions
> of the RPCs and data types match the info document. Correct the info
> document where it is wrong, add a least stubs for those which are
> lacking a documentation. Remove those from the document which are obsolete.
[...]
The following table shows the progress made:
* Inter Process Communication:: Step 1 is done.
* Virtual Memory Interface:: Step 1 is done.
* External Memory Management:: Step 1 is done. NEW!
* Threads and Tasks:: Step 1 is done.
* Host Interface:: Step 1 is done.
* Processor Interface:: Step 1 is done. NEW!
* Device Interface:: Step 1 doesn't apply (no manual pages).
The new version is available at
http://people.debian.org/~brinkmd/mach/mach-0.2.tar.gz (72966 bytes)
It is 258kb huge, and 128 pages long in the postscript version.
All manual pages that were available to me are incorporated.
Now, the update/proofreading has to be done. Over 250 interfaces are
documented, and I don't think that many are missing (maybe one or two
dozen), so I'd guess it is 90% complete interface-wise.
Of, course, conceptually there is little to find in the manual pages. The
postscript books have more info, but we still have no license to copy from
that. I will punt this off as long as possible.
Help with this is still needed and welcome.
Thanks,
Marcus
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