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diff --git a/user/jkoenig.mdwn b/user/jkoenig.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..14e40bf6 --- /dev/null +++ b/user/jkoenig.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +## Hurd Debian-Installer + +My [proposal](http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2010/HurdDebianInstaller/JeremieKoenig) +to work on porting d-i on Hurd +as a [Google Summer of Code](http://code.google.com/soc/) student +has been accepted by the Debian project. + +I will be keeping track of my progress on this page. + +### Latest news + + * *busybox*: + patches [posted](http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2010/05/msg00048.html). + I need to test them on kFreeBSD, + then submit them upstream and to #323670. + * installation images boot with the following changes: + * rebuild hurd-udeb from with the latest pkg-hurd patches + * use busybox from my osports-debian branch (see link above) + * tweak the d-i image build scripts + * the symlink /lib/ld.so -> ld.so.1 needs to be created somehow + (youpi mentionned it being the job of libc0.3-udeb I think) + * fix the poll() issue in libdebian-installer + (patch to be submitted soon), + also there is some hurd doxygen short-circuiting stuff + there which does not apply any more and prevents is to build. + * initrd support coming soon (BTW gnumach does not like gcc-4.4), + for the time being it needs to be fed to qemu as a hard drive + (with some more space added to avoid it from becoming full) + +### Roadmap + +#### Week 2 (2010-05-31 to 2010-06-06) + +* see what breaks in the installer and fix the problems one by one + (install-time netcfg, cdrom detection, whatever) +* start working on mach initrd support + +#### Week 3 (2010-06-07..13) + +* try to get the busybox changes merged upstream + and integrated into the debian package +* tweak the hurd debian package to handle + what native-install used to be required for + +#### Week 4 (2010-06-14..20) + +* Hurd-specific partitionning (use supported fs types and options). + NB: we will need support in mach to reload the partition tables, + or alternatively use the parted support in libstore somehow. +* grub2 installation + +#### Week 5-6 (2010-06-21..07-04) + +* unexpected stuff +* cleanup +* call for testing +* fix bugs + +At this point we would have a basic but working installer. +Hopefully the summer would not be over yet... + +#### Week 7-8 (2010-07-05..18) + +* hurd console +* better DHCP support during and after installation +* support more types of installation images + +#### Week 9-10 (2010-07-19..08-01) + +* give a shot at the graphical installer ? + +#### Week 11-12 (2010-08-02..15) + +* test, fix, document + + +### Mostly done + +#### Week 1 (2010-05-24) + +* genext2fs: patches [submitted](http://bugs.debian.org/562999) + which add support for all block sizes and choosing them at runtime. +* busybox: started porting the upstream and Debian package to Hurd and FreeBSD +* rebuilding hurd-udeb from the pkg-hurd version + and adding a ld.so link to the initrd + fixes the exec translator crashing on startup. + (BTW would there be a mean to detect this from the libdiskfs bootstrap code + and report it ?) + diff --git a/user/kam.mdwn b/user/kam.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..da820f62 --- /dev/null +++ b/user/kam.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="Karim Allah Ahmed"]] + +<karim.allah.ahmed@gmail.com> + +Egypt. + +--- + +#GSoC: 2010 Project +Goal: + +--- +#Roadmap + +##Progress + +###Preparation Phase: + +Understanding how gnumach ticks [ at least the parts related to the project ] + +--- + +####28th of April - 5th of May: + +* Reading the paging in code in gnumach. +* Reading the libpager code, and the multipage patch. +* Reading the translators code, only the part implementing the external pager interface. + +####5th of May - 12th of May: + +* Reading the paging out code in gnumach. +* Understanding IPC in gnumach and reading some code. +* Reading "[gnu_src]/kern/sched_prim.c" + +####12th of May - 19th of May: + +* Finishing the leftover code in some of the previous phases. +* Building a big and a more clear picture of how gnumach ticks [ wiring things together ]. + +####19th of May - 23th of May: + +* Off [College related-activities]. + +--- + +###Coding Phase: + + +####24th of May - 26th of May: + +* Read the freeBSD multipages implementation. +* Basic Modifications of gnumach's code. +* err.. scratch this step. It's easier to work on porting OSF Mach's implementation of multi-pages. + +####26th of May - 28th of May: + +* port OSF Mach's clustered pagein during 'page faults' ( [src]/vm/vm_fault.c ) +* port "cluster_size" attribute of memory objects from OSF Mach. +* port "behavior" attribute of vm_map entries from OSF Mach. + +####29th of May - 2nd of June: + +* Off ( Oral Exams ) + +--- + +####2nd of May - 4th of June: + +* Finish the port of the previous phase. + +--- + +####5th of June - 11th of June: + +* Modify the API of the libpager to support multipages. + +--- + +####12th of June - 26th of June: + +* Modify the of the translators code to implement the new libpager interface. + +--- + +####27th of June - 30th of June: + +* port OSF Mach's clustered pageout ( [src]/vm/vm_pageout.c ) + +--- + +####1st of July - 4th of July: + +* Fix the bootmem_allocator patch along with my proposal. + +--- + +### Testing Phase: + +--- + +### Exams Schedule: + +#### Final exams : + +Starts at 12th of June for two weeks [maybe 2 or 3 days longer than this , not sure] diff --git a/user/pochu.mdwn b/user/pochu.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..164f8900 --- /dev/null +++ b/user/pochu.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +# Emilio Pozuelo Monfort + +Email: pochu27@gmail.com + +--- + +# GSoC 2010: Hurd: Fix Compatibility Problems Exposed by Testsuites + +Mentor: Carl Fredrik Hammar + +## Abstract + +This project will consist of identifiying some projects' test suite +failures when executed on GNU/Hurd, debugging them, and if they are +truly GNU/Hurd issues (and not problems in the projects themselves), +fixing them. + +## Timeline +* May 24th: Students begin coding for their GSoC projects +* May 31st: GLib and GNU coreutils done +* June 8th: End of classes +* June 28th: Python done +* July 9th: End of exams +* July 12th: Perl done +* July 16th: Mid-term evaluations deadline +* August 1st: DebConf +* August 16th: Firm 'pencils down' date + + +## TODO +* Send copyright paperwork back to the FSF. +* Bug 28934: Address comments on the patches. +* Bug 29655: Submit to libc-alpha when the copyright assignment is on file. +* Implement getsockopt() in hurd/pflocal/socket.c +* Send a summary to bug-hurd explaining the O_NOFOLLOW & O_NOTRANS problem. +* Investigate why coreutils' nice test fails. + + +## Documentation +* [Towards a New Strategy of OS Design, an architectural overview by Thomas Bushnell, BSG](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-paper.html) +* [The Hurd, a presentation by Marcus Brinkmann](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-talk.html) +* [The Hurd Hacking Guide](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/hhg.html) +* [MIG - The MACH Interface Generator](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/doc/unpublished/mig.ps) + +## Log + +### May 19 - May 26 +* Read [MIG - The MACH Interface Generator](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/doc/unpublished/mig.ps) +* Worked on bug 28934. Send [patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00108.html) for review. +* Requested GNU libc copyright papers to the FSF again since they didn't arrive the first time. + +### May 12 - May 19 +* Read http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-talk.html +* Half read http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/hhg.html +* Read many Hurd interfaces (fs.defs, auth.defs, fsys.defs, io.defs, + password.defs). + +### May 5 - May 12 +* Read http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-paper.html +* Improved the linkat() patch +* Fixed the issues mentioned in bug 28934, but after doing so I realized + that wouldn't work well. The only good solution is to pass file_name + from execve() to the exec server, so we need new RPCs. + +### April 28 - May 5 +* Submitted a talk proposal on Hurd with Michael Banck for DebConf +* Sent request to assign copyright to the FSF for Hurd/Mach/libc + +### Before April 28 +* Investigated the glib's gtester problem and tracked it down: + [bug 28934](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28934). Prepared a patch + but it's not good. +* [glib's garray test timeouts on Hurd](https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568760). + The tests passes if the timeout is increased. The current upstream timeout + (10s) is quite small (it fails on many Debian builds for some Linux arches). + However on Hurd it needs a very big time it seems (like more than 100s). + Maybe do an allocation benchmarch? +* Investigated glib's unix-fd test failure: getsockopt() isn't implemented + on Hurd. Need to implement it in hurd/pflocal/socket.c. +* Investigated coreutils' ln EIEIO, with Samuel's help. linkat() is buggy. + Reported as [bug 29655](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29655). Prepared a + patch for it. +* Investigated coreutils' cp EACCES. Test case: 'mkfifo a && cp -R --copy-contents a b'. + Problem is that O_NOFOLLOW adds O_NOTRANS. diff --git a/user/scolobb.mdwn b/user/scolobb.mdwn index d64ac133..017936e5 100644 --- a/user/scolobb.mdwn +++ b/user/scolobb.mdwn @@ -13,6 +13,49 @@ Sergiu Ivanov Mail: <mailto:unlimitedscolobb@gmail.com> +# Current Activity + +I am currently busy finishing the university semester, this is why I +am rather passive. + +## Roadmap + +* **Build `nsmux` under the Hurd tree** -- **antrik** has been urging + me to do this for a long time, so I definitely have to give it a + try. + +* **Try Thomas's `nsmux-notify` branch** -- To support his stance + against including `nsmux` in the Hurd source tree, Thomas added to + `nsmux` the ability to listen to port notification (as I understand + it). I have to try that, too. + +* **Make proxy nodes go away when the proxied translator goes away** + -- This should be done by listening to notifications on the ports to + the proxied translators. A similar functionality is already + implemented in `unionmount`, but it was decided that `nsmux` should + use standard notification interfaces, as opposed to the custom + demuxer and handler implemented in `unionmount`. + +* **Don't attach anonymous translators** -- There is no special point + in attaching anonymous (formerly known as dynamic) translators to + specific nodes. Keeping them orphan should simplify the design of + `nsmux` by eliminating the need for shadow nodes, whose main purpose + was to serve as virtual locations to attach translators to. + +* **Setup a list of nodes proxying static translators** -- This list + is needed when for the filter, which should also be able to go down + the static translator stack, not only the stack of anonymous + translators. + +* **Cleanup `nsmux`** -- When I was writing `nsmux` my acquaintance + with good coding and code formatting practices was very basic, which + resulted in messy and sometimes ugly code. + +* **Implement recursive propagation of translators down directories** + -- This task was planned long ago and is fascinating, but I won't be + working on it in the near future. + +--- # Google Summer of Code: 2009 Project diff --git a/user/zhengda.mdwn b/user/zhengda.mdwn index dd8e6bac..39af5699 100644 --- a/user/zhengda.mdwn +++ b/user/zhengda.mdwn @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ porting DDE developed by DROPS to the Hurd, and it will still run in the user sp The introduction of DDE/DDEKit can be found in [here](http://wiki.tudos.org/DDE/DDEKit) and more information can be found [here](http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pipermail/l4-hackers/2009/004291.html). DDE/DDEKit is a library, and it should be compiled with the code of Linux or FreeBSD drivers. DDE Linux26 is still under development and it can now support network and block devices (but doesn't support SCSI). ## My work -I separate DDE Linux26 to 2 parts: libddekit and libdde_linux26. I also provide a library called libmachdev on the top of the Linux code to provide the Mach device interface, so it is easy for the user to compile a Linux driver and run it in the Hurd. The latest code can be found in the dde branch of the incubator repository. +I separate DDE Linux26 to 2 parts: libddekit and libdde_linux26. I also provide a library called libmachdev on the top of the Linux code to provide the Mach device interface, so it is easy for the user to compile a Linux driver and run it in the Hurd. The latest code can be found in the dde branch of the incubator repository. The current status: the pcnet32 driver can work very well in DDE Linux26 now. I hope someone can try other NIC drivers. Please run DDE with GNUMach in the [master-user_level_drivers](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/gnumach.git/) branch. @@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ There is a minor problem when we compile a Linux driver. Linux drivers use jiffi ## Build and run DDE drivers -To build a Linux driver with DDE Linux, the easiest way is to use dde_pcnet32 (also in the dde branch) as a template. The directory of dde_pcnet32 has Makefile, Makeconf.local, default.ld, pcnet32.c and main.c. If we need to build a new driver file, we only need to replace pcnet32.c with the new file and change Makefile accordingly. +It is better to disable the corresponding kernel drivers in GNU Mach. For example, if we use the pcnet card, we'd better disable lance and pcnet32 drivers while building GNU Mach. DDE requires the pfinet with the modification during my GSoC project in 2008 and that pfinet requires libpcap-dev. To build DDE, we have to first install libpciaccess. libdde_linux26 has to be compiled manually (building dde_pcnet32 doesn't compile libdde_linux26 automatically). + +To build a Linux driver with DDE Linux, the easiest way is to use dde_pcnet32 (also in the dde branch) as a template. The directory of dde_pcnet32 has Makefile, Makeconf.local, default.ld, pcnet32.c and main.c. If we need to build a new driver file, we only need to replace pcnet32.c with the new file and change Makefile accordingly. You also need to change DDEKITLIBDIR, DDEKITINCDIR, DDE26LIBDIR and OBJ_BASE in Makeconf.local to indicate the path to ddekit and dde_linux26. To run a DDE NIC driver: |