Sergey Bugaev <buga...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 6:12 PM Guy-Fleury Iteriteka > <gfle...@disroot.org> wrote: >> On May 15, 2023 4:38:34 PM GMT+02:00, "jbra...@dismail.de" >> <jbra...@dismail.de> wrote: >> >+As of May 2023, the Hurd developers have a bootable 64-bit Debian >> Are sure a debian hurd boot?? > > I'm rather sure some patches required to get anything serious (e.g. > ext2fs) booting and working still only exist on my tablet, so this > must be talking about me. > > What I have here is not really a bootable Debian... it's a Frankenhurd > made partly out of Samuel's debs, partly built myself. There's not > much of a system, there are the Hurd servers, libraries, and /bin/sh > (and some utilities I'm calling from it like uname). This is in many > ways like booting Linux with init=/bin/sh, surely you wouldn't call > that 'booting Debian'? > > A more correct description would be: > > Work on the x8_64 userland port started in Feb 2023 [note: I'm > counting from my first x86_64 glibc patches, but surely there's been > related work before, e.g. Flavio's MIG changes]. As of May 2023, the > x86_64 port works well enough to start all the essential Hurd servers > and run /bin/sh.
Ok thanks. I'll reword that to something that we can add to the wiki. > > (If you want more specific dates: I first got ld.so and libc.so > building on March 11th, the bootstrap task first ran all the way to > main on April 20th, and I got /bin/sh running on May12th). > > Sergey > -- Joshua Branson Sent from the Hurd
