On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 09:40:50AM +0100, Farid Hajji wrote: > Wow, I'm truly impressed! I didn't yet download nor tried it, but
Impressed by my insanity, you mean. ;) > will do so on my development NetBSD/x86 box, just to be sure that it > really is POSIXish enough for my needs ;) As you've correctly guessed, > you're not the only one interested in a user-land mach emulation that > permits hacking on the Hurd inside a POSIX (restricted to x86-platforms) > system. [I hate frequent rebootings too ;-)] I'm glad you're interested. For the benefit of l4-hurd readers, let me reiterate that the linked-to code does not do anything remotely useful, it's there for informational purposes only. If/when I get something that I think is "portable" to other people's i386-Linux machines, I will announce a 0.1. > So VK will need to provide a sufficiently small subset of Mach to be > useful at all. This involves changing the Hurd sources to use less mach- > specific things that will not be present in VK. We're currently in > the process of assessing the Hurd requirements of such a VK and of > means to implement VK/L4. Once the set of VK syscalls stabilizes, > VK/POSIX (and most likely VK/Mach) could be rather quickly implemented. > Then, the Hurd sources will need to be modified to use only this > stable set of VK syscalls. Such hacking could be effectively done > either on Hurd/VK/Mach or Hurd/VK/POSIX, the latter being what John > is intending with gnumach-otop right now. I definitely intend to hack with it. One potential problem for using my work (assuming it becomes usable) in an effort to port the Hurd to L4 is that I am prefering Linux dependency to x86 dependency where I have such a choice. However, I aim to keep both kinds to a minimum without needing to recompile userland Hurd code. Cheers, -John -- John Tobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
