Re: Wow! I just built oskit in Hurd!
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:05:09AM -0400, B. Douglas Hilton wrote:
> ... and the smp sample kernel booted!
>
> It took a grueling 75 minutes, wherein my spiffy UW SCSI
> hard drive made incessant grinding crunchy noises the likes
> of which I haven't heard since about 1990 with a ST225 MFM
> drive! ( I can build oskit natively for Linux in < 10 mins )
>
> But it worked! I must say that I am very impressed. Now, if
> I had only given it the "--prefix=/" option during configure...
>
> Well, one step at a time, I suppose. Next I'll be trying to compile
> the oskit-mach source natively. Once that works, I'll be ready to
> start tinkering with the SMP code. Anything that will speed up
> this legion of wildebeasts will be very useful, I'm sure.
>
> Man, that ncr53c8xx SCSI driver in gnumach-1.2.5 really might
> have a performance issue. I hope the oskit-mach drivers somehow
> magically make it faster.
I've built oskit and oskit-mach natively on Hurd before, and it also
took me a while while having to endure similar noises. I don't think
the SCSI driver is the problem because I have an IDE drive, the
bottleneck must lie somewhere else.
>
> Well, that's it for now. Next -> oskit-mach native build.
>
> Any tips or pointers are always welcome.
>
What helped me the most was keeping my CPU cool. :-) Just keep a log
of the build because it might be helpful to figure out what happend
if the build fails or the sytem crashes.
> Regards,
> - Doug
>
My exams will soon be over, so I hope I can get back to work on oskit-mach
and other things soon.
Igor
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