Re: Oskit-mach tests
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 01:56:18AM -0400, B. Douglas Hilton wrote:
> Jeff, I am still interested in hacking on SMP support for
> OSKit-Mach, but I have been busy and otherwise occupied for quite a
> while. I run a Tyan Thunder 100 Pro with dual Pentium II 450's right
> now. I haven't made the big Hurd update yet.
Oskit doesn't currently claim to have SMP support - You've got a steep
curve ahead of you.
> Would perhaps sponsor me and I will start seriously hacking away at
> OSKit-Mach again?
Being an advocate for a Developper is an exercise where I'm stating
that I've done some work with you and beleive that you've generally
got what it takes to help further the project. I haven't done any
working actively with you, so I don't feel comfortable sponsoring you.
Further, being a developper is orthoganol to software development. If
you have the skills to hack SMP support into OSKit-Mach, I would
rather see you focus your time on system stability. Even having
someone provide quite detailed bug reports to Roland, Marcus et al.,
would probably go a long way to getting Gnumach 2 released.
> I have already built an Arm -> X86 GDB serial cross debugger so I
> can use my Netwinder to debug a running OSKit-Mach kernel and it
> works nice.
Very cool.
> I'd be happy to help out but I really think you should
> upgrade me to a real developer.
Do you mean like Debian developer, or Hurd developer? If you mean
Debian developper, your talent is wasted if you have the skills to fix
core Hurd problems. If you mean Hurd developer, I suspect as soon as
you have a clever hack or two in the Hurd, you'll find that the title
has crept up on you unannounced. ;)
Tks,
Jeff Bailey
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