Re: Updated HHG (was: Fwd: about GNU Hurd)

2007-09-20 Thread Ben Asselstine
On 9/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:21:20PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > > > From: Shakthi Kannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > The Hurd Hacking Guide, for example, didn't take me much further > > > (lot of TODOs): > > > http://www.gnu.or

Re: NIC woes (was: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers)

2007-09-20 Thread R. Steven Rainwater
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:32:01PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > > The Hurd installed and even booted but TCP/IP refused to > > work. The problem was a defective built-in ethernet port > > on the P2B-LS board. While Linux is okay using a

Updated HHG (was: Fwd: about GNU Hurd)

2007-09-20 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:21:20PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > From: Shakthi Kannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The Hurd Hacking Guide, for example, didn't take me much further > > (lot of TODOs): > > http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/hhg.html > > For what it's worth, Ben Ass

NIC woes (was: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers)

2007-09-20 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:32:01PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > The second box was an ASUS P2B-LS motherboard with an Intel PII-MMX > 400 MHz CPU. The Hurd installed and even booted but TCP/IP refused to > work. The problem was a defective built-in ethernet port on the P2B-LS > board.

Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

2007-09-20 Thread Ben Asselstine
On 9/20/07, Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > How big is this hard disk? Ben Asselstine also recently reported about > having no luck with booting when using a 300 GiB hard disk. We suspect > that there may be problems somewhere in GNU Mach and / or GNU Hurd's > libdiskfs an

Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

2007-09-20 Thread R. Steven Rainwater
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 10:28, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:32:01PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 17:47, Claudio Fontana wrote: > > > http://www.nongnu.org/thug/gnumach_hardware.html > > > > Thanks for the link. We should probably incorporate an u

Re: User-space device drivers: ``interface to interrupt hardware''

2007-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Thu 20 Sep 2007 17:21:03 +0200, a écrit : > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:22:00PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is Minix doing? > > > > Minix 3 uses user-level drivers. In some cases, when a transient > > failure affects

Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

2007-09-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 05:28:00PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > "How to become a Hurd Hacker" tutorial OK, no problem with starting such a thing. There just has to be someone to do it :-). And, good news: parts of it already exist. Some examples: *

Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

2007-09-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:32:01PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 17:47, Claudio Fontana wrote: > > http://www.nongnu.org/thug/gnumach_hardware.html > > Thanks for the link. We should probably incorporate an updated version > of that into the new Hurd Wiki.

Re: User-space device drivers: ``interface to interrupt hardware''

2007-09-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:22:00PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What is Minix doing? > > Minix 3 uses user-level drivers. In some cases, when a transient > failure affects a driver process, it may be restarted. That I already knew about