Re: Contributing - available projects?

2020-12-17 Thread Joan Lledó
Hi, El 15/12/20 a les 21:40, Edward Haigh ha escrit: Of course! I'll set a dev environment up and do a little research on existing frameworks, then come back to you. I remember I used to use the Perl test suite to test the lwip translator, you may want to take a look.

Re: Contributing - available projects?

2020-12-15 Thread Edward Haigh
Of course! I'll set a dev environment up and do a little research on existing frameworks, then come back to you. Thanks all, take care! Edd On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 20:36, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Edward Haigh, le mar. 15 déc. 2020 20:29:46 +, a ecrit: > > So perhaps an automated test framew

Re: Contributing - available projects?

2020-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Edward Haigh, le mar. 15 déc. 2020 20:29:46 +, a ecrit: > So perhaps an automated test framework targeting the pfinet stack would be > useful?  Yes, or probably rather: look out for existing tcp/ip testing frameworks, there are most probably already some just waiting to be used :) Samuel

Re: Contributing - available projects?

2020-12-15 Thread Edward Haigh
So perhaps an automated test framework targeting the pfinet stack would be useful? Edd On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 20:16, Samuel Thibault wrote: > jbra...@dismail.de, le mar. 15 déc. 2020 19:24:13 +, a ecrit: > > Recently lwip has been ported to the Hurd. It sounds like Samuel (main > > hurd mai

Re: Contributing - available projects?

2020-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
jbra...@dismail.de, le mar. 15 déc. 2020 19:24:13 +, a ecrit: > Recently lwip has been ported to the Hurd. It sounds like Samuel (main > hurd maintainer) wants to rewrite pfinet to use lwip instead of the > linux 2 TCP/IP stack. This was actually already done. What we'd need now is testing it

Re: Contributing - available projects?

2020-12-15 Thread jbranso
Hello Edward! Welcome aboard! For getting into the TCP/IP stack you could take a look at this item: https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5469 (https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5469) I guess the current pfinet (TCP/IP stack) uses the linux 2 series TCP/IP stack. Recently lwip has been ported to the Hurd

Re: Contributing to GNU HURD

2019-04-24 Thread Joshua Branson
Krzysztof Piecuch writes: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Friday, April 19, 2019 3:54 PM, Joshua Branson wrote: >> Perhaps we could schedule some time to meet via the >> interwebs and try to learn together. I can certainly show you how to >> edit the wiki if you are interested in that. >

Re: Contributing to GNU HURD

2019-04-23 Thread Krzysztof Piecuch
Hi, Apologies, I didn't go through the questionnaire but it's not the first thing you see on the site. > What areas are you interested in contributing to? I don't have a strong preference as long as it's about low-level stuff and not something like "implement HTTP library one more time". I also

Re: Contributing to GNU HURD

2019-04-23 Thread Krzysztof Piecuch
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, April 19, 2019 3:54 PM, Joshua Branson wrote: > Perhaps we could schedule some time to meet via the > interwebs and try to learn together. I can certainly show you how to > edit the wiki if you are interested in that. Thanks, but I find it rather hard a

Re: Contributing to GNU HURD

2019-04-19 Thread Joan Lledó
Hi, > I'd like to contribute to this project by writing some code. Do you have any idea on mind? Something you want to do?

Re: Contributing to GNU HURD

2019-04-19 Thread Joshua Branson
Krzysztof Piecuch writes: > Hello, > > I'd like to contribute to this project by writing some code. > I'm a fairly independent developer but I would benefit from a mentor. > Would anyone be happy to help me or I should make something by extrapolating > existing code? I wish I could help you out,

Re: Contributing to Hurd

2019-03-03 Thread Joan Lledó
Missatge de Samuel Thibault del dia dg., 3 de març 2019 a les 17:39: > > What would be the difference with the io_select operation? > The real difference between select() and poll() is the way to express a > set of fds, and that does not show up in the RPCs anyway. Mmm, yeah, that's right. Then I

Re: Contributing to Hurd

2019-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joan Lledó, le dim. 03 mars 2019 17:25:47 +0100, a ecrit: > If I remember correctly, poll() and ppoll() on glibc end up calling > the io_select operation. Maybe a good exercise would be to add a new > 'poll' operation to the pfinet interface, What would be the difference with the io_select operati

Re: Contributing to Hurd

2019-03-03 Thread Joan Lledó
Hi, > Joan, where do think something could be missing? Maybe a good start is to read and understand all the code of the translator and explain what every function does. That could be useful for others who want to contribute to the Hurd, not only on the lwip translator. Back in my GSoC I took some

Re: Contributing to Hurd

2019-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Sooraj Tom, le mar. 26 févr. 2019 00:35:55 +0530, a ecrit: > I am Sooraj Tom, final year undergraduate student in CS at Indian Institute of > Technology Palakkad. I took up 'Contributing to Hurd' as my Bachelor thesis > project. I have familiarized myself with the concepts of Mach but has n

Re: Contributing to Hurd

2014-01-22 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:03:31 -0700, Joshua Beitler wrote: > Hello world! I'm interested in contributing to the development of the Hurd > in any way possible. Welcome to the project! > I've done some hobby OS development, though I have a > lot to learn. I'd be glad to help with the kernel

Re: Contributing to GNU Hurd

2013-12-05 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 13:16:31 -0800, kishore kumar wrote: > This is Kishore. I am very much interested in Operating Systems. I have a > bit experience in both Linux and Solaris. Please let me know how can I > start contributing to GNU Hurd project. Welcome! There are some pointers given on <

Re: Contributing

2013-06-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Cris Mihalache, le Tue 25 Jun 2013 12:12:06 +, a écrit : > Once I finish, I'd like to help out with Hurd/Mach development, but I would > appreciate some pointers on starting :) Any simple things I can tackle to > begin > with? How should I approach it? I guess you have read http://www