Cool stuff! Can the branch be actively used or is it still too incomplete? Cheers Flavio
On 1 January 2016 at 22:09, Richard Braun <rbr...@sceen.net> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 09:13:56PM +0200, Justus Winter wrote: > > this is my report on my GSoC project, "Physical memory management". > > > > Tldr: There are some remaining issues to fix, but here is a flashy > > screenshot of a patched kernel not quite booting Debian/Hurd: > > Hello, > > Since Justus took a full time job, he had little time to pursue his > work, and I stepped in to finish it. After a few months of occasional > bug hunting, I finally got a working version that you can find in my > darnassus repository [1], branch rbraun/vm_page. > > My approach was to redo the work with the least possible assumptions, > something that is actually very hard to do as it took me a lot of time > to identify even the slightest ones that turned out to be wrong. This > work isn't finished, it's merely an incomplete development branch, > but it's an important step towards managing more physical memory and > very strongly reduce kernel memory exhaustion panics. > > -- > Richard Braun > > [1] http://darnassus.sceen.net/gitweb/?p=rbraun/gnumach.git;a=summary > > -- Flávio Cruz / flavioc...@gmail.com
