Re: Future use of OSKit facilities in gnumach

2003-03-05 Thread John Tobey
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:34:47PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > > No, that is the FUN part. I've got that working rather well, if I may > > say so (rewritten since my first try). The hard part is putting it > > all together. > > Nice. I hope you will make your code available even if unfinishe

Re: Future use of OSKit facilities in gnumach

2003-03-04 Thread John Tobey
> Nice. I hope you will make your code available even if unfinished so > people can see (and maybe help), sooner rather than later. The hurd > sourceforge project might be a good place for this right now. If it is > kept reasonably cleanly isolated, we would love to incorporate this into > GNU M

Re: Future use of OSKit facilities in gnumach

2003-03-04 Thread Roland McGrath
> No, that is the FUN part. I've got that working rather well, if I may > say so (rewritten since my first try). The hard part is putting it > all together. Nice. I hope you will make your code available even if unfinished so people can see (and maybe help), sooner rather than later. The hurd

Re: Future use of OSKit facilities in gnumach

2003-03-02 Thread John Tobey
> This stuff is really all using the "minimal" code. This is just stuff for > booting and such, and things like _exit to reboot and printf for the > boot-time output on the minimal console. > The use now is pretty minimal and if anything there will be less use rather > than more. Thanks Roland,

Re: Future use of OSKit facilities in gnumach

2003-03-02 Thread Roland McGrath
> I see that GNU Mach links with a few OSKit libraries including > -loskit_c. However, it seems to require only a few functions from > that library, and most (all?) of its OSKit dependencies exist for the > device driver framework ("osenv"). That and booting, and for the unfinished SMP support, t