Alpha and HURD

2000-06-12 Thread Dr. Unk
I was wondering if there was any ports to the Alpha architecture. Supposedly HURD will work on any architecture supported be the microkernel. I would like to work on anything having to do with the Alpha, but I need to get a running HURD on my system, which currently runs a makeshift GNU/Linux

Re: NORMA, Load-Balancing and Hurd-Cluster (from: entropy-0.2, ...)

2000-06-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 10:02:14PM +0200, Farid Hajji wrote: > > IMO, a more serious problem is that the current situation about GNU > > Mach is somewhat confusing. There are at least three variants, that > > is, gnumach-1.2 and later which have glue code with Linux's block and > > net drivers,

Re: NORMA, Load-Balancing and Hurd-Cluster (from: entropy-0.2, ...)

2000-06-12 Thread Farid Hajji
> IMO, a more serious problem is that the current situation about GNU > Mach is somewhat confusing. There are at least three variants, that > is, gnumach-1.2 and later which have glue code with Linux's block and > net drivers, gnumach-char which has glue code with Linux's char > drivers addition

Re: entropy-0.2 [Was: Re: /dev/{,u}random driver]

2000-06-12 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 02:03:39PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > But I don't think it's very bad to have the whole code in the kernel > itself, since the code size is negligible and we will steal the code > from Linux anyway. It is a problem on aesthetic sense rather than a > technical defici

Re: entropy-0.2 [Was: Re: /dev/{,u}random driver]

2000-06-12 Thread Niels Möller
Sune Kirkeby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > True, but currently the egd source seems messy to me, which was a real > turn-off for me, that and learning more Hurd programming this way made > the choice an easy one. So, there are not really any technical > reasons speaking for my current implementa