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diff --git a/contributing.mdwn b/contributing.mdwn index 9a67da75..3a2e87a6 100644 --- a/contributing.mdwn +++ b/contributing.mdwn @@ -163,14 +163,14 @@ packages](http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/failed_packages.txt). This is the list of tasks that we *want* to address soon, starting with the most pressing: -* Add amd64 support to gdb. +* Add amd64 support to gdb, see [Flavio patch pending commit](https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2024-February/206895.html) * Fix shell output pipe replacement issue on amd64, see [discussion](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2023-10/msg00062.html). -* Add make/swap/set/get/context support for amd64 (for go and others). * On amd64, fix memcpy (> 16 bytes) from `/dev/mem` (makes hurd-console crash) * Settle CI for mig+gnumach+hurd+glibc. * Port `dhcpcd`, see [call for help](https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2023/11/msg00030.html) * Extensively test (e.g. running testsuites of glibc, perl, curl) and fix the lwip-based TCP/IP stack, to be sure we don't get regressions by switching to it. +* Fix swapping with `rumpdisk`. * Prevent duplicate instances of `rumpdisk` from competing for the disk PCI cards (e.g. when a second one gets started from a chroot). * Fix the memory consumption of `rumpdisk`. * Integrate `rumpusbdisk` with the rest of the disk translators etc. @@ -230,6 +230,9 @@ After you have a Hurd vm set up and running: * `git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/hurd/gnumach.git` * `git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/hurd/incubator.git` * You can connect through ssh with `ssh root@localhost -p 2222` +* Optionally if you connect to the Hurd running on another local + machine, then you might want to set up the + [[hurd/terrible-mdns-responder]]. * Get more from the [repo list](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/). * Read the docs on these pages. * Start hacking. |