Re: A small patch for the Hurd Reference Manual

, Sep 25, 2015 at 01:52:25PM -0400, Joshua Branson wrote: diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore deleted file mode 100644 Not sure what happened to your .gitignore -- but you definitely don't want this in the patch :-) +Note that it is impossible to share microkernel devices between +two runni

A small change to gnumach.texi

Hello all, I've copied the history section of mach from the wiki (https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/microkernel/mach/history.html) into the gnumach/doc/mach.texi). My diff seems to be adding some changes that I did not intentionally make. I don't think that it changed the manual

A small patch for the Hurd Reference Manual

Hello, My name is Joshua Branson, and I've recently made some small changes to the hurd reference manual in hurd/doc/hurd.texi. My changes in patch.diff are as follows: 1) I made a tiny grammatical fix. 2) I changed the "don't get any funny ideas" to be mor

[bug #15485] KP_UP and KP_DOWN does not work under X or console

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #15485 (project hurd): The console up and down keys seem to work for me, when I do not start X. I have not tried to boot into X and see if it fails there though. ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: aptitude not working

You're much better off using qemu. You can read about how to set up an instant development environment here: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing.html#index4h2 Do not pass the "|-no-kvm-irqchip" |||option. Also the default *img file is only has space for about 2 GBs I think. You may

[bug #48438] Cannot replace /hurd/fifo with different passive translator

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #48438 (project hurd): I am also unable to replace /hurd/fifo with /hurd/hello, BUT when I run $ settrans hop /hurd/hello settrans: hop: Device or resource busy $ showtrans hop /hurd/fifo ___

[bug #48890] mach-defpager isn't properly marked important

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #48890 (project hurd): cut -d ' ' -f 26,27 /proc/11/stat outputs '0 0' for me. That's the correct output right? I believe my debian-img is from 2016... ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #48437] diskfs_S_file_set_translator shortcutting "/hurd/fifo" to S_IFIFO discards options

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #48437 (project hurd): I just repeated the commands, and this is indeed still a bug. ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message

Re: Cannot clone glibc

Hey Samuel, I had tried cloning glibc via the GNU/Hurd running in a vm. I tried to clone it just now with GNU/Linux and it worked just fine. So I'll transfer the files over to the vm. Thanks! On Thu, Nov 16, 2017, at 03:48 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Joshua Branson, o

Cannot clone glibc

Hello, I attempted to clone Hurd's glibc, but I am getting a weird error: joshua@debian:~/programming$ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/hurd/glibc.git Cloning into 'glibc'... remote: Counting objects: 465122,

[bug #18218] glibc: `MSG_NOSIGNAL'

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #18218 (project hurd): Can we close this bug? Sounds like the problem might already be solved... ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #49730] /proc/PID/environ returns I/O errors on read attempts

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #49730 (project hurd): I think I understand the main things that were said in the first paragraph. I wrote a short bash program to try to run cat /proc/936/environ 1000 times. The program seemed to run fine, but I'm not sure if it got an I/O error. I assume that

GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch

>From 6fe963a6ed30de1b3162bf4a767478b6a161fb1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson <jbra...@fastmail.com> Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 09:53:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] * community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn I mentioned that lwip was recently ported to the hurd. --- commu

I mentioned that lwip was ported to the hurd on the tcp ip gsoc page

Hello, I noticed that the tcp/ip webpage for the Hurd does not mention that we already have a port of the lwip tcp/ip stack. This patch briefly explains it. >From 6fe963a6ed30de1b3162bf4a767478b6a161fb1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson <jbra...@fastmail.com> Date: Thu, 3

Re: Can we use a rump kernel to implement ext4?

Luca Dariz <luca.da...@gmail.com> writes: > Il 02/05/2018 20:17, Joshua Branson ha scritto: >> >> Slightly related question, I just quickly read the intro text to the >> rump kernel on rumpkernel.org. And I read >> >> "We solve the problem by pro

Re: GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch

corrected version in a moment. At the moment I can't get ikiwiki to render the git repo into html. So I can't really verify that the links I make point to the right URI. > > > [1] > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/tree/lwip/port/netif/hurd

Re: Fwd: GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch

Joan Lledó writes: > Hello, > >> However, lwip uses the netdde device drivers for wireless chips, >> which are old drivers from an old version of linux > > Does netdde provide drivers for any wireless card? I don't remember. > Anyway, there's no difference between lwip

The "New Driver Framework" wiki page is outdated

Hello, I just noticed that the "New Driver Framework" on the wiki recommends DDE as the way to get more userspace drivers, but the git repo recommends a rump kernel. Is there a way to update the wiki? Is this something that I can do?

Some Hurd youtube videos

Good morning you awesome devs! I've been occasionally creating GNU/Hurd youtube videos. I was wondering if this would be beneficial to add to the GNU/Hurd wiki somewhere. Perhaps on this page? https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/documentation.html Anyway, here's a link to my youtube

Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

Amos Jeffries writes: > On 09/06/18 04:53, Joshua Branson wrote: >> Amos Jeffries writes: >> >>> On 08/06/18 04:58, Joshua Branson wrote: >>>> >>>> I would actually recommend that you just run the Hurd in qemu. Most, if >>>> not al

Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Joshua, > >> We need to show people how to use mailing lists. I'm actually wanting >> to make a youtube video explaining this...Mailings lists are still super >> hard. They are not intuitive... > > What do you find unintuitive about them? Do you mean the patch

Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

the second time that I heard that. After I spent an hour recording the video to youtube, I stopped recording for youtube. Then someone could start participating. I guess that Jitsi doesn't support recording to youtube and participating at the same time. > 2018-06-07 18:58 GMT+02:00 Joshua Branson :

Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

talking with > Thomas Schwindge in this group. > > Now I have to study my exams, but someday I would to contribute to Hurd > project > > El Jueves 7 de junio de 2018, Samuel Thibault escribió: > > Joshua Branson, le jeu. 07 juin 2018 09:56:31 -0400, a ecrit: &g

Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

Amos Jeffries writes: > On 08/06/18 04:58, Joshua Branson wrote: >> >> I would actually recommend that you just run the Hurd in qemu. Most, if >> not all, of the main Hurd developers just run the Hurd inside qemu. >> >> Also a cool idea! I believe I read s

Re: Enable SMP support

Almudena Garcia writes: > Hi all: > > Reading this post in Hurd FAQ, I read that Mach has SMP support, but It was > disabled because the Linux device drivers glue code isn't thread-safe. > > https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq/smp.html > > Then, I ask . Are there any form to enable this SMP

Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

Hello, I was thinking last night about the Hurd, and I had some ideas that I thought I'd share. I will freely admit that I'm not a Hurd developer or a software developer. The longest piece of code I've written was a projecteuler.net solution...I've also been a huge fan of the Hurd project and

Re: Error with random generator

Almudena Garcia writes: > Excuse me, sometimes I press the wrong button when I reply the email. Also don't feel too bad. People make mistakes. I'm actually still trying to figure out how to use mailing lists. I'm currently subscribed to emacs, guix, and the Hurd, and I have a complicated

Re: Error with random generator

Samuel Thibault writes: Herein follows a short rant. I'm not the best person to speak about this, but I really do appreciate Samuel's work on the Hurd. I hope I'm not speaking out of turn. > Hello, > > Please always keep the mailing list in Cc, so that I am not the only > recipient of the

Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

omas Schwindge in this group. > > Now I have to study my exams, but someday I would to contribute to Hurd > project > > El Jueves 7 de junio de 2018, Samuel Thibault escribió: >> Joshua Branson, le jeu. 07 juin 2018 09:56:31 -0400, a ecrit: >> > P.S. Samuel feel free to le

Re: Why do lightdm don't works?

Almudena Garcia writes: Thanks! Is this a vm image that runs in virtual box or qemu? > Updated torrent: > > The user and pass is test:test > > 2018-06-12 19:37 GMT+02:00 Almudena Garcia : > > You can download my VM image from the attached torrent > > 2018-06-12 15:

Re: X crashing on startup

Almudena Garcia writes: > I tried a simple experiment, adding setuid to xinit file, with > > chmod u+s /usr/bin/xinit > > After do this, I stopped xdm and execute startx to run the DE directly. > > And now Xorg finish correctly when I logout!! :-) Congrats!!! Haha. Are you running the Hurd

Re: Why do lightdm don't works?

Almudena Garcia writes: > Hi all: > > I'm trying to enable a Desktop Manager to improve the Desktop Environment > start. > > I checked that xdm runs correctly, but lightdm don't start. > It is so curious, because lightdm is the default DM when I install Xfce. > > But, when I try to start

Re: Enable SMP support

Almudena Garcia writes: > Here attach the patch files. > > About the sources, the gnumach apt sources are dated in 2018/02/18, so It > don't includes your latest fixes. > > How can I download sources from git repository? I believe the gnumach repo is located here: git clone

Totally off topic: I'm Re-Learning C

Hello all! About a week or 2 ago I wanted to brush up on my C coding. So I had a very simple goal of writing a C program to minify a real simple html file. This C file in fact: #+BEGIN_HTML Bootstrap 101 Template Hello, world! #+END_HTML Anyway, I wrote

Re: Problems with Xorg

Almudena Garcia writes: > Ok. I think that I am not suscribed to this list. > Do you can send link from the archive? If you google it, you can probably find it. Also please not that running the Hurd in virtual box is probably not the best way to do it. All of the Hurd developers actually run

Re: Totally off topic: I'm Re-Learning C

s only barely useful. There's tons of programs that already do this. > > 2018-06-06 17:07 GMT+02:00 Joshua Branson : > > Hello all! > > About a week or 2 ago I wanted to brush up on my C coding. So I had a > very simple goal of writing a C program to minify a real simple

Re: Fwd: GSoC TCP/IP webpage edit patch

Samuel Thibault writes: > Hello, > > Thanks for the patch, I have pushed it. > > About wireless drivers, there used to be some pcmcia (pc-card) drivers, > but that's very old :) netdde doesn't include the wireless stack (even > if linux 2.6.26 used for netdde did have

Can we use a rump kernel to implement ext4?

Slightly related question, I just quickly read the intro text to the rump kernel on rumpkernel.org. And I read "We solve the problem by providing free, reusable, componentized, kernel quality drivers such as file systems..." Could someone use a rump kernel to implement more modern filsystems?

[bug #20683] time returns bogus user/system time

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #20683 (project hurd): This is still an issue. This wiki page has more information: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/time.html#index2h1 You can see this issue via: joshua@debian:~$ time sleep 8

Re: Rust support

Awesome!!! Keep up the cool work! On Mon, Dec 25, 2017, at 8:19 PM, David Michael wrote: > Hi, > > I've been poking at cross-compiling Rust projects for Hurd on and off > for a couple of weeks, and I thought I'd upload what I have now for > comments. A new snapshot of my silly Hurd distro is

How do I learn the Hurd stuff?

Hello, for the past few weeks, I've been coding for an hour a day in C. I don't know that I have much to show for it yet, but I am making some progress. My eventual goal is to be something resembling a decent hurd developer. Does anyone have any tips for how to do this? I'm building up a C

Re: How do I learn the Hurd stuff?

Joan Lledó writes: > Missatge de Joshua Branson del dia ds., 25 > d’ag. 2018 a les 19:09: >> Is there something else I could be doing? > > It could be worth to take a look at my GSOC blog, it may help you: > http://darnassus.sceen.net/~jlledom/en/index.html Thanks!

Re: How do I learn the Hurd stuff?

Richard Braun writes: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 01:20:55PM -0400, Joshua Branson wrote: >> Is there something else I could be doing? How much time should I try to >> devote to this a week? With 1 hour a day get me somewhere in 6 months? >> Or should I be spending mo

[bug #48864] git/emacs can't restore from CNTL-Z suspend

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #48864 (project hurd): I can verify this is still a problem. :( ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message sent via Savannah

Meta Learning the Hurd Stuff

Hello, Summary: beating myself up because I'm not an expert hurd developer won't help me learn faster. So this is going to be a short positive critique of my current learning strategy, and it will hopefully help me to learn better. I realize that this is slightly off topic, but if we are a

Re: How do I learn the Hurd stuff?

Almudena Garcia 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

Re: How do I learn the Hurd stuff?

Joan Lledó writes: > Missatge de Svante Signell del dia dg., 26 > d’ag. 2018 a les 19:52: >> I've read your blog from your GSoC project. Nice reading indeed. Since >> more developments have been made by you and others after that, do you >> think you could add a follow-up of that blog to reach

Re: Enable SMP support

Almudena Garcia writes: > I've just fixed a little error in my code. > > I attach the fixed file > > 2018-07-04 21:14 GMT+02:00 Almudena Garcia : > hmmm. This is a little out of my league, but I appreciate you for trying!

Re: Enable SMP support

6/intel_startCPU.c > > Now I'm searching the equivalency to this: > > - IdlePTD in this line: > > DBG("IdlePTD(%p): 0x%x\n", , (int) (uintptr_t)IdlePTD); > > - the next variables and struct > > start_info.starter_cpu = cpu_number(); > start_

Re: Debian/Hurd: Console Timeout Error

Maybe try downloading a new qemu image? Sometimes this happens to me, and I just give up and try using a new qemu image... Charlie Sale writes: > I tried doing that, but I got some errors during the process. Here is what I > did: > > 1. $ fdisk -l debian-hurd*.img >

Re: Debian/Hurd: Console Timeout Error

Maybe I'll being really silly here, but isn't root password empty mean you just press RET? User: root Password: Charlie Sale writes: > Alright. A quick update: > > So I created a disk from scratch. I use that, and the console works fine. I > can type on it and

Re: Debian/Hurd: Console Timeout Error

Oh, good to know! haha!

Trying to install the Hurd as my VPS

Hello, So I'm trying to use the Hurd to run my website: gnu-hurd.com (Currently debian 9 is serving the site). When I asked around on #hurd, I was told that the Hurd can run on a linode. But does it run well? What would be the best way install the Hurd on a VPS? Is there a VPS somewhere that

Re: [PATCHv2] os-prober: Fix translating device to mach format

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> writes: > Joshua Branson, le mar. 17 avril 2018 18:39:48 -0400, a ecrit: >> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> writes: >> > Joshua Branson, le mar. 17 avril 2018 17:24:35 -0400, a ecrit: >> > There are also ot

Re: [PATCHv2] os-prober: Fix translating device to mach format

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> writes: > Joshua Branson, le mar. 17 avril 2018 16:43:27 -0400, a ecrit: >> P.S. I am currently trying to learn some argp in C, so I could >> potentially write some trivfs translators. I got a basic program to >> run...t

Re: [PATCHv2] os-prober: Fix translating device to mach format

Hey Samuel, I just wanted to voice my appreciation for your years of hard work! I understand that you want a life too! P.S. I am currently trying to learn some argp in C, so I could potentially write some trivfs translators. I got a basic program to run...then it segfaulted. So it may be a

Re: [hurd, commited] hurd: Make __if_nametoindex return ENODEV if ifname is too long

Hey Samuel, I wish I had the technical expertise on helping you in maintaining the Hurd port. :( You are doing awesome work, and maybe someday I'll be able to help out! On Tue, Apr 3, 2018, at 3:03 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Andreas Schwab, on mar. 03 avril 2018 23:24:54 +0200, wrote: > >

Re: FOSDEM 2019 - Microkernels developer room - CfP

Martin Stein writes: > Hi, > > I'm Martin from Genode Labs, Dresden. We're organizing the "Microkernels > and component-based OS" developer room of the FOSDEM 2019 and thought > that maybe the GNU Hurd community could be interested in participating > in this Devroom. What do you think? I was not

Re: Some lwip, dde, and rump related wiki changes

Svante Signell writes: > Hi Joshua, > > pfinit -> pfinet Thanks, I always get those confused! > > On Sat, 2018-10-27 at 15:58 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Joshua Branson, le sam. 27 oct. 2018 10:08:28 -0400, a ecrit: >> > Hello

wiki edits: gopherfs, xattr fix, and deficiencies page edit

Just some usual edits. Thanks, Joshua >From c10b738dcf9a1e575f4a7046356ddc599e4dc75d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:51:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] I explained that the gopherfs is defunct and pointed to the httpfs page. I mentioned that the xattr w

Wiki Edits: cgit -> git, shepherd, systemd, upstart

More changes. Thanks, Joshua

Wiki edits: http -> https, updated status page, fsysopts page, and translator primer

The subject says it all. Thanks, Joshua >From 966f14cd6b6e800a094394fbcd5a1eb03d2d20a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:13:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] I changed some http urls to https. I added a sentence that mentioned how the Hurd has preliminary so

A patch for the hurd wiki

Hey, There are some changes for the physical memory management page and the wine page. Thanks >From 696bb22276d675e226336159375ec7b1293984ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 06:29:45 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] * I restructured open issue wine to show that w

Re: wiki edits: gopherfs, xattr fix, and deficiencies page edit

ian. Though now I believe GNU Guix can build them too! > > Thanks > > El Lunes 29 de octubre de 2018, Joshua Branson escribió: >> >> Just some usual edits. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Joshua >> >>

Wiki edits: how to download irc logs, deprecated qemu command, etc.

Some simple wiki changes. Thanks, Joshua >From 0579edf84a780d78ea6f4cdeafcd6ef67906ea54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:55:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation page now shows how to download all of the irc logs. the lwip page now mentions Joa

Some lwip, dde, and rump related wiki changes

Hello, I've mentioned that DDE is no longer being maintained and pointed people to the rump webpage, which is one that I just created. Thanks, Joshua>From 5675bcbce8054eceb6ac69d46224895866365a75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 09:17:53 -0400 Subj

Re: Wiki Edits: Cleaning up anatomy, deleting a comment, adding an image to microkernel page

Samuel Thibault writes: > Hello, > > I applied it except. > >> I added an image to the microkernel page. > > It could be much better by introducing the glibc layer and writing > "POSIX call" and "RPC calls". On monolithic systems, the application > calls a glibc function which just makes a

Re: Wiki Edits: ascii art on the anatomy of a hurd system page

Samuel Thibault writes: > Hello, > > Joshua Branson, le ven. 02 nov. 2018 12:39:05 -0400, a ecrit: >> I guess I'm a visual learner. I hope some might find this graphic >> helpful. I'm making it it's own patch, because I'm not certain how >> accurate this "image&

Re: Wiki Edits: cgit -> git, shepherd, systemd, upstart

Samuel Thibault writes: > Joshua Branson, le jeu. 01 nov. 2018 11:20:26 -0400, a ecrit: >> More changes. > > Missing attached file :) Whoops. >From 06b5786ebae0aa11ef03aafab94bb5088a71270b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 21:18:59 -04

Wiki Edits: ascii art on the anatomy of a hurd system page

I guess I'm a visual learner. I hope some might find this graphic helpful. I'm making it it's own patch, because I'm not certain how accurate this "image" is. Thanks, Joshua >From fe8d644cc9f13dd06d23b468a2ac385ff2ce8c66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson Date: Fri,

Wiki Edits: Cleaning up anatomy, deleting a comment, adding an image to microkernel page

Thanks, Joshua >From 27e75cb7d1daea6b43a65303decfbd954bf1656c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 11:08:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] I am trying to clean up the anatomy of a hurd system webpage. Deleted an unnecessary comment. I added an image to the microker

Re: Cannot easily contribute to the wiki

Thomas Schwinge writes: I was able to my local hurd wiki to build locally. I had to disable the xapian search and ymlfront plugins. Now I have the hurd wiki building locally! Hoo ray!!! > Hi! > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:19:42 -0400, Joshua Branson > wrote: >> A few years

wiki edits: creating a lwip translator page

:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:25:10 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] I created a new lwip translator page. It is bare minimum, and it probably is not completely accurate about how to start the translator. --- .../gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn | 2 +- hurd/transla

Re: Wiki Edits: ascii art on the anatomy of a hurd system page

Samuel Thibault writes: > Joshua Branson, le ven. 09 nov. 2018 11:59:31 -0500, a ecrit: >> > It's correct, but could be improved: I'd say rather take the example of >> > glibc's send(), which is an RPC handled by pfinet, which uses a >> > device_write RPC to a

Re: Wiki Edits: ascii art on the anatomy of a hurd system page

Samuel Thibault writes: > Joshua Branson, le ven. 09 nov. 2018 11:59:31 -0500, a ecrit: >> > It's correct, but could be improved: I'd say rather take the example of >> > glibc's send(), which is an RPC handled by pfinet, which uses a >> > device_write RPC to a

Re: Wiki Edits: ascii art on the anatomy of a hurd system page

Samuel Thibault writes: > Joshua Branson, le ven. 09 nov. 2018 11:59:31 -0500, a ecrit: >> > It's correct, but could be improved: I'd say rather take the example of >> > glibc's send(), which is an RPC handled by pfinet, which uses a >> > device_write RPC to a

Re: Wiki Edits: Cleaning up anatomy, deleting a comment, adding an image to microkernel page

microkernels generally only have IPC, virtual memory, and scheduling inside the kernel. Some microkernels can actually have the scheduler in userspace! Also notice from the image the "POSIX call" and "RPC calls" layer. On the Hurd, this is glibc. Thanks, Joshua >From 9856f46ced

Re: proxy-defpager for all users?

Richard Braun writes: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:02:47PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> proxy-defpager is typically set on /servers/default-pager, but its >> permissions are by default 644, which makes it unusable by normal users, >> it'd need to be 755 (see the x check in the defpager

Wiki Edits: adding Richard's comment about mach's memory management issues

/open_issues/gnumach_memory_management_2.html The first two are probably outdated, and I could try to update them in a bit. And I should probably combine the two open issues memory management pages... >From e31ab0fc0c60cc6328fb8a7affb271eb7cb33ea1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson D

Re: Wiki Edits: adding Richard's comment about mach's memory management issues

Samuel Thibault writes: > Hello, > > Joshua Branson, le mer. 07 nov. 2018 12:00:48 -0500, a ecrit: >> -Just like any 32-bit OS without bad tricks, GNU Mach can not cope well with >> lots >> -of memory. Latest versions of the Debian `gnumach` package will limit >

Wiki Edits: mini edits for the contributing and dde pages.

Thanks, Joshua >From fb3590afda77d5771fd4f19d378cd633be71cd7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 11:52:30 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Some mini edits for the contributing and dde pages. --- contributing/web_pages.mdwn | 7 +-- open_issues/dde.mdwn

Re: Wiki Edits: ascii art on the anatomy of a hurd system page

Samuel Thibault writes: > Hello, > > Joshua Branson, le ven. 02 nov. 2018 12:39:05 -0400, a ecrit: >> I guess I'm a visual learner. I hope some might find this graphic >> helpful. I'm making it it's own patch, because I'm not certain how >> accurate this "image&

Wiki Edits: open_issues/pci arbiter

Since the PCI Arbiter was recently merged, I wanted to update the Hurd wiki. The following is a fairly large patch that does just that. The image is one that I stole from Samuel's talk. Thanks, Joshua >From 33b34d67881f945bdc9fa1ff2405bf1f93e20484 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jos

Re: Fwd: GNU MIG

Protonmail Me writes: > Dear Hurd Developers, > > I attempted to send below e-mail to the hurd-maintainters, but I found out > that this e-mail is presented on Savannah, although posted in 2011. I hope > that I > am doing this right. > > Aside from what I mentioned in the e-mail forwarded, I

Re: Cannot easily contribute to the wiki

Thomas Schwinge writes: > Hi! > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:36:44 -0400, Joshua Branson > wrote: >> Thomas Schwinge writes: > > I now pushed the attached to address this. > > > Please fetch and try again. > Thanks for the speedy response! I still am gett

Re: Fwd: GNU MIG

Nala Ginrut writes: > Hi folks! > I've planned to reimplement MIG or modern syntax in GNU Guile for > years. But I'm not sure how many people are interested in this work. Why the rewrite? Just curious.

Re: How do I learn the Hurd stuff?

t; > > > El mié., 29 ago. 2018 a las 22:56, Joshua Branson () > escribió: > > Almudena Garcia writes: > > > Hi all: > > > > I'm reading about you're interested in contributing with Hurd and practice > with C. > > > > I have an interestin

Re: Meta Learning the Hurd Stuff

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi Joshua, > > Joshua Branson skribis: > >> So yesterday, I decided to write a GNU/Hurd translator in gnu guile. > > I think this is a worthy goal (Guile bindings would be lovely!), but > maybe not the easiest way to get starte

Cannot easily contribute to the wiki

Hello, A few years ago I had the Hurd wiki cloned locally, and I could rather trivially set it up. However, following the online guide a few days ago, I'm running into some issues. https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing/web_pages.html I've cloned the repo. I've run $ apt-get

Re: Cannot easily contribute to the wiki

Thomas Schwinge writes: > Hi! > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:19:42 -0400, Joshua Branson > wrote: >> A few years ago I had the Hurd wiki cloned locally, and I could rather >> trivially set it up. However, following the online guide a few days >> ago, I'm running int

Re: Cannot easily contribute to the wiki

Thomas Schwinge writes: > Hi! > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:42:08 -0400, Joshua Branson > wrote: >> "./render_locally". >> >> $ ymlfront: failed to use YAML::Syck > > Nothing else get printed? Nope. That's the only error message that I get. :(

Wiki Edits: merging old faq with the faq

e swap space between GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd?"]] + +Yes. The default pager recognises and respects Linux swap partitions. It will +also swap to a raw partition, i.e. anything that it does not recognize as Linux +swap. Therefore: BE CAREFUL, or you may lose your data. -- 2.20.1 -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: q4 2018 qoth

Samuel Thibault writes: > Hello, > > Joshua Branson, le mar. 25 déc. 2018 13:50:17 -0500, a ecrit: >> Hello and Merry Christmas! This is my first time writing a qoth, so I >> hope it looks ok. > > Applied, big thanks! > > Samuel You're welcome! -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: [Bug hurd/24110] SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by sigaltstack

ry, but my current Hurd vm, doesn't have internet access. So that may be a bit hard for me to do properly, but time permitting, I'll give it a go. > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Wiki Edits: a smattering of small changes

Amos Jeffries writes: > On 17/12/18 10:56 am, Joshua Branson wrote: >> Amos Jeffries writes: >> >> > > Thats the page I am looking at. I see two lists for different flavours > of 64-bit. But no indication whether things like MID ABI definition are > b

Re: adduser not working?

while. :( Also, it might be best to respond to the mailing list as well. That way everyone can respond to your messages. :) > > El Miércoles 19 de diciembre de 2018, Joshua Branson escribió: >> >> Hello, >> >> I just wgot (haha wget get it?), a GNU/Hurd qemu imag

Re: Wiki Edits: a smattering of small changes

t; that things need to be implemented to get it done? I think so. Take a look at https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/64-bit_port.html What is left for initial support (32-on-64) is adding 64bit boot support from grub implement 32/64 RPC compatibility for RPCs served by kernel. > > AYJ > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Wiki Edits: a smattering of small changes

-src/" sprinkled liberally with "linux/*.h" includes should be the > code trying to be built. I thought there was a Hurd+Mach alternative of > it nowdays? > > Also does the TODO list at the top of the page have any particular order > that things need to be implemented to get it done? > > AYJ > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Wiki Edits: a smattering of small changes

e main documentation page. I added a >reference to an online open source textbook. I mentioned that >one can download the bug-hurd archives. > > P.S. I have also changed my email address. :) > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: [PATCH] hurd - Allow libstore to open non-mach device

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disklabel type: dos > Disk identifier: 0x > > Command (m for help): > > See attached for patch. > > Thanks, > Damien > > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

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