Almudena Garcia <liberamenso10...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi all: > > I'm reading about you're interested in contributing with Hurd and practice > with C. > > I have an interesting project, about implement SMP support in Hurd. > Currently, Mach has a little support to multiprocessing, but this is old and > very buggy. > > A friend has said me that It's possible to implement SMP support via > hardware, instead use software techniques, and I would try this project. > > If any person can tutorize me and contribute, I will be grateful. >
I can probably encourage you for this project, but I'm not sure if I'd be able to help very well. I'm still on the struggle bus with the Hurd development. I have a ever growing Hurd cheatsheet, but I am no CS major. Also how does one implement SMP via hardware and NOT software? Is this a portable approach to do SMP? Will this approach allow SMP on Intel, AMD, ARM, POWER, and RISC chips? Honestly, I could probably just spend some time trying to update the Hurd wiki. A lot of places just need some documentation updates. Like a lot. hahaha.
