Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 05:46:17PM +0000, Manolis Ragkousis wrote: >> With less than 12 hours for GNU to submit ideas for this year's Gsoc, I am >> wondering if porting guix to hurd and creating a guix hurd system, which I am >> currently working on, is worthy for a Gsoc idea. I am an eligible student, so >> that could be great! > > The goal is definitely interesting. However, I am not sure what there is > to do now except for packaging the hurd. As long as we do not have a running > system, what do we do with the kernel? Or would there be enough interesting > work in creating a hurd qemu image?
The things to do would be packaging Mach/Hurd/MiG/libc, adjusting cross-base.scm to allow cross-compilation to GNU/Hurd, cross-bootstrapping, adjusting ‘glibc’ in base.scm, and then working towards a GNU VM image (or non VM) based on (gnu system) stuff. I think it’s OK as a GSoC project. Ludo’.