Re: preliminary patch for initrd support in Mach

2010-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Da Zheng, le Mon 14 Jun 2010 17:27:12 +0800, a écrit : > On 10-6-14 下午3:00, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > Also, having the initrd implementation in a userspace process will > > require some changes in the bootstrap process... OTOH, these will be > > necessary for userspace drivers anyways. > I

Re: preliminary patch for initrd support in Mach

2010-06-14 Thread Da Zheng
On 10-6-14 下午3:00, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: >> or that modifying Mach for this purpose is misguided and should be >> avoided (for instance by embedding the initrd in a dedicated section >> of an elf module). > > Hm... I don't remember this variont actually being mentioned on IRC -- > but I t

Re: preliminary patch for initrd support in Mach

2010-06-14 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:49:42AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Mon 14 Jun 2010 10:47:15 +0200, a écrit : > > > > Is there such a thing as a task ID though? I thought tasks can only > > referenced by ports? > > Replace "task id" with "port ID" in my sentence then. Wha

Re: preliminary patch for initrd support in Mach

2010-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Mon 14 Jun 2010 10:47:15 +0200, a écrit : > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:33:49AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Mon 14 Jun 2010 10:22:26 +0200, a écrit : > > > (For instance, it might be possible to make Mach create a task without > > > thread if it

Re: preliminary patch for initrd support in Mach

2010-06-14 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:33:49AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Mon 14 Jun 2010 10:22:26 +0200, a écrit : > > (For instance, it might be possible to make Mach create a task without > > thread if it can't execute the image, then you could just read this task > > with the t

Re: preliminary patch for initrd support in Mach

2010-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Mon 14 Jun 2010 10:22:26 +0200, a écrit : > (For instance, it might be possible to make Mach create a task without > thread if it can't execute the image, then you could just read this task > with the task store if you know its PID.) Looks odd, but should be possible. Not l

Re: serious memory leak in hurd

2010-06-14 Thread Da Zheng
On 10-6-13 下午6:28, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Da Zheng, le Sun 13 Jun 2010 11:54:10 +0800, a écrit : >>> It is. Are you perhaps using the old K16 qemu image? There is a bug >>> with it, you need to fix the image size >> >> No, I'm not using the qemu image. Hurd runs in VMWare. But I used K16 CD to

Re: preliminary patch for initrd support in Mach

2010-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Mon 14 Jun 2010 09:00:05 +0200, a écrit : > > The current version of my d-i images use this as the root filesystem, > > with grub loading an ext2 filesystem image from the boot CD. Which is > > not that good considering that the required free space on / will > > likely v

Re: preliminary patch for initrd support in Mach

2010-06-14 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hi, On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 09:00:05AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > or that modifying Mach for this purpose is misguided and should be > > avoided (for instance by embedding the initrd in a dedicated section > > of an elf module). > > Hm... I don't remember this variont actually bein

Re: Hurd hackers at GNU Hackers Meeting?

2010-06-14 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 08:46:00PM +0300, Tibi Turbureanu wrote: > I am a student in his last year of college. I studied user & kernel > space courses and have some experience from homeworks. Besides this, > I am a free software supporter, I like the Hurd project and I want to > help. Gre

Re: preliminary patch for initrd support in Mach

2010-06-14 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 03:16:04PM +0200, Jérémie Koenig wrote: > As part of my debian-installer project[1] I have been working on > initrd support for GNU Mach. [...] > The current version of my d-i images use this as the root filesystem, > with grub loading an ext2 filesystem image from the