Re: Hurd queries

2001-04-03 Thread Glenn Alexander
On Tuesday 03 April 2001 23:33, Bob Ham wrote: > > Also, having a graphics driver is not the same as replacing X. You could > run an X server that uses a Hurd graphics translator. This is kind of > thing KGI/fb with the fb X server does. However, there is also the > Berlin project whose aim *is* t

Re: Hurd diagram

2001-04-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:43:38PM +0200, Per Arneng wrote: > Hi > > Im doing a small presentation about the hurd in one of > my computer science classes and i have made a diagram > that i want to show the design of the hurd. I dont know > if i got it right. It would be nice if anyone would come >

Hurd diagram

2001-04-03 Thread Per Arneng
Hi Im doing a small presentation about the hurd in one of my computer science classes and i have made a diagram that i want to show the design of the hurd. I dont know if i got it right. It would be nice if anyone would come with comments on it so that i can get it right. Best Regards Per Arneng

Re: Hurd queries

2001-04-03 Thread Bob Ham
On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 11:47:41 Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > The problem with sound is that those little sound devices are character > rather than block, and we have nicer a glue layer in GNU Mach nor the > libchannel abstraction yet. However, adding a simple glue layer for > character devices (read: no

Re: Hurd queries

2001-04-03 Thread Daniel E Baumann
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:47:41PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > e.g. there is no PPP support yet. > > I take the position that we have PPP support, but it is broken. The user > space ppp software needs to be debugged. That's all. No new code to be > written, no extensive porting. Just fixing

Re: Hurd queries

2001-04-03 Thread Bob Ham
On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 07:32:00 Ognyan Kulev wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:03:15PM +0100, Bob Ham wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I've a few quesitons about the Hurd that I was hoping could have some > > light shed on them: firstly, has any thought been put into how sound > > will be handled? If not

Re: Hurd queries

2001-04-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:32:00AM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:03:15PM +0100, Bob Ham wrote: > > I've a few quesitons about the Hurd that I was hoping could have some > > light shed on them: firstly, has any thought been put into how sound > > will be handled? If not, do

Re: Hurd queries

2001-04-03 Thread Niels Möller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ognyan Kulev) writes: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:03:15PM +0100, Bob Ham wrote: > > Has anyone looked at GGI's KGI kernel drivers (ie, what fb came from)? I > > would imagine that the Mach environment would be ideal to host graphics > > drivers (as opposed to a monolithic kern

Re: Hurd queries

2001-04-03 Thread Ognyan Kulev
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:03:15PM +0100, Bob Ham wrote: > Hi all > > I've a few quesitons about the Hurd that I was hoping could have some > light shed on them: firstly, has any thought been put into how sound > will be handled? If not, does anybody know if it would be possible to > port OSS/Lite