Re: initrd support

2011-09-04 Thread Jérémie Koenig
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > A hybrid solution could be the following: > > module --nounzip /boot/initrd.gz '$(initrd-task=data-task-create)' > module /boot/kernel/ext2fs.static ext2fs ... -T typed > gunzip:task:${initrd-task} > > (...) > What do people think about it?

initrd support

2011-09-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Back again with the initrd support question. There were several proposals which at least somebody doesn't like: - introduce ramdisk devices in Mach. Not considered as hurdish, would need the addition of a device command to release the memory. - somehow link the ramdisk into ext2fs itsel

Re: Real-time operation of Mach microkernel?

2011-09-04 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:37:54AM +0200, Richard Braun wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:58:40PM -0400, John Wason wrote: > > I am a robotics engineer and find Hurd's design interesting. It is > > difficult to run robotic software on a full operating system because the > > kernel is w

Re: DDE - Commit fb489ff causes FTBFS

2011-09-04 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:29:13AM -0700, Da Zheng wrote: > On 7/21/11 2:17 PM, Da Zheng wrote: > > On 06/30/11 05:46, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> Antrik told me Zheng Da has some cleaned tree on some box, but > >> didn't know where exactly... > I think all my changes have been uploaded to i

Re: [PATCH,HURD] Fix value of __libc_stack_end

2011-09-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Aurelien Jarno, le Sun 04 Sep 2011 17:32:32 +0200, a écrit : > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:22:44AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > diff --git a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/dl-sysdep.c b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/dl-sysdep.c > > index a63151f..a5df5c1 100644 > > --- a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/dl-sysdep.c > > +++ b/sysdeps/

Re: [PATCH,HURD] Fix value of __libc_stack_end

2011-09-04 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:22:44AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > When using some libthread, we need to update the value of __libc_stack_end > to what the libthread allocated. This requires making __libc_stack_end > non-relro to be able to modify it. > > Samuel > > 2011-08-24 Samuel Thibault