I've just got the hurd running on a dual Pentium Pro machine, and I've got a couple of Mach related questions. First, is there an equivalent of the 'linux-kernel' mailing list for kernel related issues?
First, could someone fix the boot messages that say 'partition check: hda hda1 hda2 hda3' to reflect that Mach uses hd0s1, etc. I found this rather confusing at first, until I realized it whas probably lifted directly from the Linux code ;) Second, does Mach support SMP at all? Does the hurd have equivalents of the linux /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/interrupts? What will it take to get SMP running? In looking at the Hurd reference manual, I see this: Currently (April 1998), the Hurd is quite dependent on the GNU Mach microkernel, which is a derivative of the University of Utah's Mach 4. However, the Hurd developers are all-too-aware of the limitations of Mach. What are some of the limitations of Mach? How does it compare to osfMach3 (which I am familiar with from working with MkLinux on PowerMacs)? Finally, I'm contemplating either porting the Hurd servers to osfMach3 so I can run it on my PowerMac, or merging osfMach and GNU Mach to accomplish the same thing. The way I interpret this notice is that this should be perfectly compatible with the GPL, provided the notice stays with the file, or possibly even in a separate file, in each directory. Any comments? (please send flames to me personally and not to the list) following is the copyright notice in one of the osfMach makefiles: # Copyright 1991-1998 by Open Software Foundation, Inc. # All Rights Reserved # # Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and # its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, # provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and # that both the copyright notice and this permission notice appear in # supporting documentation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Troy Benjegerdes | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Unix is user friendly... You just have to be friendly to it first. | | This message composed with 100% free software. http://www.gnu.org | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
