From 3b4a7fb1606e5774447a1571991a5005b69dcdd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 21:50:30 +0000 Subject: 2006-08-06 Thomas Schwinge * DEVELOPMENT: Update. --- DEVELOPMENT | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'DEVELOPMENT') diff --git a/DEVELOPMENT b/DEVELOPMENT index e5962769..e01dead9 100644 --- a/DEVELOPMENT +++ b/DEVELOPMENT @@ -1,5 +1,29 @@ -*- Text -*- +If you're ``just'' looking for something to work on, have a look at the + * bug list, and + * task list, . + +HOW TO CONTRIBUTE LARGER CHUNKS +=============================== + +If you want to help the maintainers to be quickly able to evaluate and +check in your contribution, please try to follow these suggestions: + +Try to mark in the code stuff (i.e. whole functions, parts of header +files) that you've just copied (and then perhaps modified; also note that +briefly) from somewhere else and stuff that you've actually written +yourself. Either do that by simply writing a ChangeLog in parallel (an +informal one is fine as well) or put notes in the modified / imported +files. The one who will be checking in your patches will then probably +remove most of these notes, as soon as everything is written down in the +real ChangeLog. Logging your changes right from the beginning makes it +much easier for the maintainers to track down where which chunk is coming +from, so that they can be handled appropriately. + +HISTORY +======= + `gnumach-1-branch-before_removing_unused_and_unsupported_code' was tagged on 2006-02-20. After creating that tag, code for unused and unsupported device driver for ISA cards and a good deal of i386 dependent, also @@ -7,20 +31,11 @@ unused and unsupported code was removed. On 2006-03-19, support was removed for FIPC, which only ever was used within the native Mach NE2000 NIC device driver, see -. -. +. +. Support for NORMA was removed on 2006-03-20. -. +. Be sure to check the ChangeLog and have a look at the repository at that tag's state if you want to work on those parts of GNU Mach. - - -Starting with the application of the patch from -, -GNU Mach's usage of the machine's memory equipment is currently forced to -be somewhere below 1 GiB, to make GNU Mach work at all on systems with -such enlarged RAM installations. This is--of course--not optimal. See -the calculation of and with `kernel_virtual_end' and `morevm' in -i386/intel/pmap.c and `phys_last_addr' in i386/i386at/model_dep.c. -- cgit v1.2.3