Does creative masoshism count as GSoC project? I dont know :) Hm... These points all belong to the big topic, getting modern linux distro binaries (NTPL stuff) to work. This would be a good thing because I'm stuck on some old debian sarge that was just moved to the archives.
Step one would be to get the simple single-threaded stuff to run like echo and cat. The part point here is TLS. I had a somewhat working plan9 driver for it but never packaged it up because i wanted the whole thing working before submitting a kernel patch. You may later progress to multithreaded apps wich use futex syscall. The way I work on linuxemu is randomly trying stuff out, see where it crashes... try to understand why it crashes... implement/fix syscalls and try again. Sometimes it easy and sometimes you scratch your head for a several months. Its hard to estimate the time needed to get X running because you never know what crazy optimization shit the linux/libc guys come up with next to make you suffer. Here is always a huge risk of failure in linuxemu because all the details are in Ulrich Dreppers head only or encrypted with c-preprocessor-ifdef-encryption in the glibc-code so getting help is very hard and most of the stuff you have to find out yourself (this may cause brain damage over time). I cant (officialy) mentor you as I'm short of time and have no scientific background or something, but I will try to give you all infeormation/code and support I have... Its good to hear that someone starts taking over some work! :) Just drop me an email. I may be in irc from time to time too but dont count on it. -- cinap
--- Begin Message ---Hi all, I am interested in the GSoc project: Linuxemu improvement. But the project description seems too general. I don't know from which aspect can we make improvement. There is a TODO file in the linuxemu3 source directory and I find TLS, futex, VDSO listed. Can these TODOs make a gsoc project? Thanks. -- Regards, Zhao
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