Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-07 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:27:54PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: We have not worked too much on the hardware support in the past months, so it is basically network board drivers from linux 2.6.32, and IDE disk support. I for instance installed it on my Dell D430, and network just works fine.

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Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Neil McGovern, le Tue 07 May 2013 11:14:01 +0100, a écrit : On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:27:54PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: We have not worked too much on the hardware support in the past months, so it is basically network board drivers from linux 2.6.32, and IDE disk support. I for

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-07 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 08/05/13 00:07, Samuel Thibault wrote: I don't know what ethernet driver these would need. Should probably start a GNU/Hurd hardware status page on the Wiki... Neil McGovern, le Tue 07 May 2013 11:14:01 +0100, a écrit : a) A HP DL360 or similar The chipset has changed a bit between

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steven Chamberlain, le Wed 08 May 2013 00:59:19 +0100, a écrit : d) VMWare/VBox etc. This already works. Also, Xen support just works [...] With network connectivity? Sure. If so which NIC do they emulate? (rtl8139?) They don't emulate a nic, it's ParaVirtualization. What

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steven Chamberlain, le Wed 08 May 2013 00:59:19 +0100, a écrit : Neil McGovern, le Tue 07 May 2013 11:14:01 +0100, a écrit : a) A HP DL360 or similar The chipset has changed a bit between generations: G1: eepro (Linux) or fxp (*BSD) driver, requiring non-free microcode We haven't worked

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: We haven't worked on microcode upload, since we don't necessarily target non-freeness... I'm not sure where Hurd is at with wireless drivers, but there is some GPLed WiFi firmware out there: