Re: Reinventing the Hurd server bootstrap

2014-12-27 Thread Justus Winter
Quoting Ludovic Courtès (2014-12-27 22:22:34) > Justus Winter <4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> skribis: > > > Wait, that sounds like serverboot, doesn't it ? > > > > It does. I think it was a mistake to abandon it in the first place. > > Evidence for that: 1. We now have two copies of the boo

Re: Reinventing the Hurd server bootstrap

2014-12-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Justus Winter <4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> skribis: > Wait, that sounds like serverboot, doesn't it ? > > It does. I think it was a mistake to abandon it in the first place. > Evidence for that: 1. We now have two copies of the bootscript > parser, once in the kernel, once in boot. 2. W

Re: Reinventing the Hurd server bootstrap

2014-12-27 Thread Justus Winter
Quoting Richard Braun (2014-12-27 12:20:17) > On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 06:32:33PM +0100, Justus Winter wrote: > > Quoting Richard Braun (2014-12-26 17:10:19) > > > What kind of non-elf files ? > > > > Any file. I created this patch in an attempt to use a dead task > > (i.e. a task w/o a thread) as

Re: Reinventing the Hurd server bootstrap

2014-12-27 Thread Richard Braun
On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 06:32:33PM +0100, Justus Winter wrote: > Quoting Richard Braun (2014-12-26 17:10:19) > > What kind of non-elf files ? > > Any file. I created this patch in an attempt to use a dead task > (i.e. a task w/o a thread) as a ramdisk. Now I'm (ab)using this patch > to load the