Hi, On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 03:19:26PM +0100, Tim Kack wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 14:51 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Tim Kack, le Tue 22 Dec 2009 14:31:46 +0100, a écrit :
> > > 1. What would it take to bring the device driver layer (which is > > > from Linux 2.0 via glue code?) up to either a modern BSD or Linux > > > 2.6 level? > > > > A lot. See the discussion about the DDE work of Zheng Da for a way > > to deport the work to the DDE community. > > Thanks for this - I have not looked closely what Zheng Da has done in > this area. This is exactly what I was looking for. If you happen to be familiar with Makefiles, you might be able to help right now -- presently it needs a way to build the linux26 and/or freebsd DDEs on Hurd :-) > > > 3. What would it take to enable SMP and/or NORMA-RPC? > > > > No real development as GNU Mach is already supposed to be SMP-safe. > > Problem is that the drivers are old and don't work with ACPI, and > > the SMP-safety hasn't been checked for a while. Err... I think he actually meant APIC here... > Though from following Haiku dev I noticed that ACPI implementations > are quite problematic. Indeed, ACPI is a pain. That's one of the things we'd definitely want to borrow from other systems... Along with most of the other drivers :-) -antrik-
