Re: Hurd on a cluster computer

2016-08-02 Thread Brent W. Baccala
Well, then I suppose I'll go ahead and get netmsg running on a current Hurd system. It'll have all kinds of problems, of course, but I've never written a Hurd translator, so it seems like a good place to start. I've been trying to get Hurd running on qemu/kvm, but I'm having a lot of problems wit

Re: Hurd on a cluster computer

2016-08-02 Thread Olaf Buddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 01:42:16PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote: > I've been wondering about using Hurd on a cluster computer; [...] > If so, then the first step would be to modify Mach, [...] Pretty much everything you describe has actually been considered in the original design of Mach, a

Re: rump pci drivers backend

2016-08-02 Thread Olaf Buddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 06:30:09PM +, Luca wrote: > I need a way to translate logical addresses to physical, Is this for DMA or something along these lines? If so, the interface for allocating "contiguous memory" that was added for the purpose of DDE should work here as well I'd presume.