On Friday 13 July 2012 08:29 AM, Barry deFreese wrote: > It seems that OS_xxx_TRUE and OS_xxx_FALSE do not get defined on GNU/Hurd. I > was hoping that > defining GNU/Hurd as OS_LINUX would work but it doesn't as it tries to bring > in the scsi includes > from Linux. > > Ideally the whole source tree would need to be updated to include OS_GNU_TRUE > but it looks like a > bit of work. I will see if I can get to it. Please also note that Hurd currently has no scsi implementation. If you really want to work on it, I guess you look at this attached email from Thomas Schmitt as a starting point.
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > A quick search for scsi related items on Hurd shows nothing interesting Samuel Thibault wrote: > You can look on the bug-hurd mailing list, "Interface for SCSI > transactions", Thomas Schmitt proposed to work on a generic interface, I > don't know its status. Well, it is being left behind, currently. The last technical discussion was in october 2012. My youngest proposal seems to be in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-10/msg00053.html (I found a sketch on my local disk which contains this proposal and the elder one with a more generic RPC.) The most disputed issue in the discussion was how to design and integrate the RPC call. I got half an ok for my proposal by Olaf Buddenhagen. I then tried to get a real DVD burner accessible via qemu. This succeeded for a Debian GNU/Linux guest: http://libburnia-project.org/wiki/QemuXorriso but the emulated controllers were not supported by Hurd then. I have watched progress reports about DDE here on the list, but did not yet explore whether this work affects my roughly sketched path through the compoments of Hurd. Actually i do not see myself qualified as kernel hacker. My role would normally be the one of a skilled user of an SCSI passthrough interface: Telling what's needed, testing, maybe digging for bug hideouts in the code, ... So i would not mind if anybody else takes on the task. As soon as there is a userspace interface for SCSI passthrough and Hurd can access a real DVD burner, i am committed to test it Have a nice day :) Thomas
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