Re: Hurd on a cluster computer

2016-07-29 Thread Brent W. Baccala
Richard, Thanks for the reference to "single system image"; it helped me much to know what to Google for. I've looked into the network proxy you described. It seems to have taken several forms. First, a Mach server called "netmsg" relayed Mach messages using UDP. The big drawback was the overh

Re: rump pci drivers backend

2016-07-29 Thread Luca
Il 29 luglio 2016 12:21:01 CEST, Justus Winter ha scritto: >> I am now able to run virtio ld drivers, > >What are ld drivers? > IIRC ld stands for logical drive. Basically it's a disk driver with a virtio backend. >I see that you are making use of the Mach debug interface. Note that >this inte

Re: rump pci drivers backend

2016-07-29 Thread Justus Winter
Hi :) Luca Dariz writes: > I have make a small improvement to the pci-userspace backend for rump > drivers, here > > https://github.com/rumpkernel/pci-userspace/pull/4 Cool! > I am now able to run virtio ld drivers, What are ld drivers? > any comment or suggestion is very welcome! I see tha