What: 68th HelenOS project meeting
When: Sep 8, 2012, shortly after 14:00
Where: U Webru, Prague
Who: JJ, JS, JV, MD, JZr (Google+), HS (Google+)
Scribe: JJ

Round table:

JJ:
  - report on his kernel IPC work
    - lp:~jakub/helenos/camp2012
    - the goal is to address/fix mainly: #279, #444, #487, #488, #489
    - cleanup of sysipc.c and definition of per-message type callbacks
    - still not fully debugged, but hopefully close

JZr:
  - report on his Go port;
    - "everything except crypto works"
    - goroutines based on fibrils
    - WiP: async framework binding
  - discussed ideas for his VFS 2.0 project
    - would like to reuse the existing FS implementations

JS:
  - continued in efforts started at HelenOS Camp 2012
  - factor out console protocol into libc
    - would be nice to have async_wait_for_cv
  - MD: is libc the right place where to factor out the client/server
        protocol boilerplate code?

JV:
  - attempt to merge the bbxm branch
    - "still not done, but never been as close to it"
    - armv6 mm
      - the kernel should support armv4, v5, v6 and v7
    - Integrator/CP kernel serial console
  - report on his audio for HelenOS master thesis

MD:
  - IPC/async framework "interfaces and ports" will go in probably in
    October, after JJ's changes
  - merged SATA/AHCI (with changed IRQ handlign)
  - follow-ups on JZr's memalign fix
  - uspace linker script tweaks and fixes
  - changed mips32 to use the barebone configuration
  - merged ext4 support
  - merged the GUI branch (with modifications)
  - merged UDF support

HS
  - downloaded HelenOS 0.5.0 and booted into it
  - noticed some usability issues
  - was told to start filing tickets

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