Howdy !
Happy New Year to everyone ! Hope people are back from holidays
and are ready to bring Solaris to PowerPC. So to bring everyone
up to speed, here is what happened since the last year ;)
1. We've finally consolidated two mailing lists into single list - this
one. [You are all set, since you're reading this mail :) ]
2. Extensive :-O search for the collaboration tool ended up with more or
less one candidate - trac. The tool is somewhat rough, but it seems to
be satisfying the minimum set of requirements and if nothing spectacular
will pop up in a week or so I think we should implement it.
3. I am progressing steady with the source base. There are a number of
architecture specific directories in the source tree (uts/ppc/sys,
uts/chrp/sys ans some others) which need to be populated with the
appropriate .h files. I am using both SPARC and x86 counterparts as a
source of general idea of what belongs to each specific file and trying
to make the whole thing compile. I am building platform/chrp/kernel/unix
as a test module - since it pulls almost everything.
(Who said porting Solaris to a new architecture is a piece of cake ???)
4. We need documentation - there supposed to be some Sun internal
documentation on various kernel subsystem. We need it. Nexus drivers,
memory management, etc. I bet there are at least some ARC materials
that cover this stuff. Is there any way to get an access to it ?
5. Jeremy Tao successfully recreated my build environment. While
being cool by itself it also helped spotting some problems.
Thanks, Jeremy.
6. I want to encourage people that can code to go ahead and do it.
It takes nothing to create private branch in SVN and start poking.
7. Anyone wants to work on [k]mdb support ? I am sure it will rapidly
become one of the most important tools.
Regards,
Cyril
