More Mentors!

2011-04-10 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, We have quite a lot of proposals this year that look pretty promising so far. We don't know yet of course which we ultimately want to go with (and even if we did, we wouldn't be allowed to tell ;-) ) -- but if we get enough slots, we might want to take up most of them. However, I'd like to st

IRC meeting 2011-04-12

2011-04-10 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, This is a reminder about the IRC meeting this Tuesday, 19:00 UTC. I hope to see the GSoC applications and potential mentors, so we can talk about the applications. If you can think of anything else we should discuss this week, please speak up, and we will add it to the agenda :-) -antrik-

ghc6: Re: Update: ... compiling ghc6

2011-04-10 Thread Svante Signell
Addressing both Haskell and Hurd people here. Any hints by anyone? On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 09:30 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: ... > #5 0x011d3ce0 in __libc_read (fd=DWARF-2 expression error: DW_OP_reg > operations must be used either alone or in conjuction with DW_OP_piece > or DW_OP_bit_piece. > )

Re: [scdbac...@gmx.net: Interface for SCSI transactions ?]

2011-04-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > There's the "Documentation" link on this page which I believe has all > the links that exist. I meanwhile downloaded machuse.ps which drives my gv to the edge of madness. It starts at page 20 and i can only go backwards page by page. Probably i should make 20 screenshots for reading them in

Re: [scdbac...@gmx.net: Interface for SCSI transactions ?]

2011-04-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (Shall i stop CC'ing help-hurd ?) > > So i would rather propose a new function with the semantics of SG_IO: > > A completely hurdish interface for this would probably be the best, yes. > You'll have to learn mig, however :) Well, the SG_IO-ish wrapper around scsi_do_cmd() would be a matter

Re: [scdbac...@gmx.net: Interface for SCSI transactions ?]

2011-04-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > That interface isn't complete: the GNU Mach kernel uses linux drivers > internally, and the scsi_ioctl() function is available there (thus with > the linuxish interface), but its features have not been propagated to > the device_get/set_status() user interface yet. I see. Googling "hurd de

Re: [scdbac...@gmx.net: Interface for SCSI transactions ?]

2011-04-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schmitt, le Sun 10 Apr 2011 20:42:53 +0200, a écrit : > (Shall i stop CC'ing help-hurd ?) It's not useful indeed. > Its own usage model is command-and-reply. Like a shell script or dialog > session. Seems to fit nicely into > http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/microkernel/mach/mig.html > (

Re: [scdbac...@gmx.net: Interface for SCSI transactions ?]

2011-04-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schmitt, le Sun 10 Apr 2011 17:13:25 +0200, a écrit : > So i would rather propose a new function with the semantics of SG_IO: > - A drive handle. > - A struct to take parameters and results of the transaction > (Linux has sg_io_hdr_t). A completely hurdish interface for this would probabl

Re: Problems running Hurd as xen domU

2011-04-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alexey Shvetsov, le Thu 07 Apr 2011 19:48:10 +0400, a écrit : > authKernel Page fault trap, eip 0x20006cd3 > kernel trap, type 14, code = 0 > Dump of i386_saved_state 65993ec8: > EAX 0008 EBX 610ac000 ECX 5000 EDX 0058 > ESI 610ac010 EDI 01024ea8 EBP 65993f30 ESP 0058 > CS 0009 SS 0

Re: [scdbac...@gmx.net: Interface for SCSI transactions ?]

2011-04-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Sun 10 Apr 2011 06:43:04 +0200, a écrit : > i would like to check out whether there is documentation > or an interested tutor for the tasks of listing all MMC drives, getting > (exclusive) access to a drive, sending SCSI commands, getting reply > data and error indicatio

[scdbac...@gmx.net: Interface for SCSI transactions ?]

2011-04-10 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Forwarding to appropriate list... - Forwarded message from Thomas Schmitt - Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:17:13 +0200 From: Thomas Schmitt To: help-h...@gnu.org Subject: Interface for SCSI transactions ? Hi, i would like to explore the possibilities to let GNU xorriso burn CD, DVD or BD m