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diff --git a/user/jkoenig.mdwn b/user/jkoenig.mdwn index cbd30b93..10247217 100644 --- a/user/jkoenig.mdwn +++ b/user/jkoenig.mdwn @@ -103,12 +103,6 @@ I will be keeping track of my progress on this page. **Milestone (2010-06-28): installer kindof works, with documented manual intervention required** -* (./) Set up a Debian mirror with modified packages for installation - * the [mirror](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-install/mirror) - is now up and running (2010-07-06) - * hacked the image build script to include its public key in - debian-archive-keyring at image build time (2010-07-08) - * (./) Sort out the situation with dev node creation (2010-07-07): * Devices and servers used to be set up by debootstrap; the hurd package would add some missing nodes. @@ -153,46 +147,121 @@ installer kindof works, with documented manual intervention required** * make partman-basicfilesystems re-create the device as a kernel partition, which is needed for swapon -* **d-i/installer/build**: (expected 2010-06-28) +* (./) netcfg-static: port to hurd (2010-07-09) + * There was some amount of hurd support already + (namely, activating the interface by replacing the socket translator) + * However, this code started an active translator with + di_exec_shell_log("settrans -a ...), + which stalled as a consequence of it capturing libdi's pipe + as its standard output. + * Network devices must be probed by trying to open Mach devices + with predetermined names (currently eth%d, wl%d), + because getifaddrs() does not seem to work on Hurd. + * /!\ netcfg, and configuring the installed system, postponed. + +* **procps** 3.2.7-11 (current hurd-i386 version) has [[!debbug 546888]] + * (./) Submit [[!debbug 588677]] and upload the result to my repository. + (2010-07-11) + +* (./) Set up a Debian mirror with modified packages for installation + * the [mirror](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-install/mirror) + is now up and running (2010-07-06) + * hacked the image build script to include its public key in + debian-archive-keyring at image build time (2010-07-08) + * Apparently debootstrap does not handle multiple versions very well. + Fix by using dpkg-scan{package,sources} rather than apt-ftparchive + to create index files. + (2010-07-10) + * Use the override files from ftp.debian.org, + to avoid debootstrap grabbing inappropriate packages. + * Changed them to make [[!debpkg ifupdown]], + [[!debpkg dhcp3-client]] and [[!debpkg dhcp3-client]] priority extra, + because they're uninstallable at the moment. + (2010-07-12) + +* (./) Put together a "jk-archive-keyring" package, + so that the mirror is authenticated in the target system as well. + (2010-07-12) + +* (./) Fix grub for user-space partitions (2010-07-16) + * grub-probe detects the whole device rather than the partition + as the device behind /boot/grub. + Consequently, grub-install fails. + * One approach would be to replace /dev/hd* by kernel devices + for file systems as well as for swap partitions. + > {X} this makes the installer crash, + > possibly due to cache coherency issue between hdX and hdXsY. + + * (./) GRUB2 kern/emu/getroot.c + [patched](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00059.html) + to support part stores. + +* (./) Fix finish-install to skip `finish-install.d/90console` on Hurd + (2010-07-17) + +* debootstrap: + Don't use find to firmlink devices into /target, + to avoid starting many translators at once + (2010-07-17, to be tested soon) + +* **d-i/installer/build**: (expected soon) * publish the patch I use * sort out the changes suitable for inclusion and ask youpi and/or debian-boot@l.d.o to commit them -* **partman**: further adjustments - * hide irrelevant mount options? (sync, relatime) +**Milestone (expected 2010-07-18): +installer works but it's still somewhat ugly and broken** + +* call for testing and fix the bugs + +* See if it would be possible to avoid accessing devices + when firmlinking them into the target system. + * Who does that? + * find should prune them as instructed, + and avoid a stat/readdir as a result + * showtrans shouldn't access the translator itself + * firmlink should access the target only when it is used + +* In the same vein, permissions on underlying nodes + are probably broken when created by hurd through `MAKEDEV -k`, + and doing the actual chmod/chown accesses the device + * Maybe settrans could be made to accept -o/--owner and + -p/--perm, to set the permissions for the underlying node? + +* Silence the "no kernel" warning somehow. + +* Try to resolve problems with udebs which are uninstallable on hurd-i386, + such as installation-locale and partman-whatever. + +* Provide `/proc/cmdline -> 2/cmdline`, or something. + +* Prepare a NMU for genext2fs (which is orphaned), + and ask youpi to sponsor the upload. * **busybox**: port * fix stty/stat/ipcs on kFreeBSD, * generally port more stuff, - * *ip* is needed for network configuration, + * *ip* is needed (maybe) for network configuration, * *mount*, *swaponoff* can be from hurd-udeb for now, though the kFreeBSD people will need them -* <strike>tweak the hurd debian package to handle - what native-install used to be required for</strike> - (debootstrap does it) - -* <strike>netcfg: make it work on Hurd somehow (port `busybox ip`?)</strike> - * Apparently netcfg-static already has Hurd support, - though we may want to make it use fsysopts instead of settrans. - * What I *will* have to do is to teach ethdetect - to use 'devprobe' on a number for network device prefixes - to determine the list (eth%d, wl%d, anything else?). - * busybox udhcpc will eventually have to be ported. +* **partman**: further adjustments + * hide irrelevant mount options? (sync, relatime) -**Milestone (expected 2010-07-05): -installer works but it's still somewhat ugly and broken** +* Network configuration on the installed system. + This includes porting ifupdown and isc-dhcp-client, + which are currently uninstallable on hurd-i386. +* Also, better DHCP support during and after installation -* call for testing and fix the bugs * improve the [initrd situation](FIXME: link to bug-hurd post): ajust the ramdisk support in Mach, - use tmpfs if possible, - possibly add `module -nounzip` to grub2. + use tmpfs if possible. + * mklibs{,-copy}: test library reduction, make it copy the ld.so -> ld.so.1 symlink. + * hurd console fonts -* better DHCP support during and after installation **Milestone (expected 2010-07-19): it works great and it's beautiful** diff --git a/user/kam.mdwn b/user/kam.mdwn index 04160d0f..8ee68866 100644 --- a/user/kam.mdwn +++ b/user/kam.mdwn @@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ Stage 1: ####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. +* (./) 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: @@ -79,49 +79,50 @@ Stage 1: --- -Stage 2: - -####5th of June - 11th of June: +####4th of June - 4th of July: -* Modify the API of the libpager to support multipages. +* Off ( Final Exams ). --- -Stage 3: +Stage 2: -####12th of June - 26th of June: +####5th of July - 7th of July: -* Modify the of the translators code to implement the new libpager interface. +* (./) Add "cluster_size" attribute to Neal Walfield's patch for the pager library. --- -Stage 4: - -####27th of June - 30th of June: +Stage 3: -* port OSF Mach's clustered pageout ( [src]/vm/vm_pageout.c ) +####8th of July - 15th of July: ---- +* (./) Patch the diskfs library to use the new pager library API. +* (./) Patch the ext2fs disk paging related routines to use the new pager library API. -Stage 5: -####1st of July - 4th of July: +####16th of July - 19th of July: -* Fix the bootmem_allocator patch along with my proposal. +* Testing the current patches. +* Stuck in compiling code ( http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5ie1bb2u91qbjipvo1_500.jpg ) , so I started reading some documentation meanwhile ( [0] , [1] ). --- -Stage 6: +Stage 4: + +####19th of July - 31th of June: -### Testing Phase: +* Check OSF Mach's mach-defpager. +* Patch (or port OSF Mach's default pager) HURD's mach-defpager to use the new gnumach's RPCs. --- -### Exams Schedule: +Stage 5: -#### Final exams : +####1st of August - 10th of August: -Starts at 12th of June for two weeks [maybe 2 or 3 days longer than this , not sure] +* Testing the ported translators. +* Fixing the boot bit-mapped memory allocator patch. --- @@ -133,20 +134,19 @@ TODO: * Update the headers of the modified files in GNU Mach to reflect the fact that they were ported from OSF Mach. -* Implement madvise() in glibc. +* Implement posix_madvise(), posix_fadvise, and readahead() in glibc. * Update the documentation of GNU Mach with the new interfaces. -* Revise and finish the code related to default_memory_manager management in GNU Mach. +* (./) Revise and finish the code related to default_memory_manager management in GNU Mach. [done] * Port the vm_page "clustered" attribute. [ to mark that the page wasn't requested but was paged-in as part of the cluster ]. ---- -Stage 2: +--- -Stage 3: -Stage 4: +# Readings -Stage 5: +[0] http://www.nongnu.org/ext2-doc/ext2.html +[1] http://kerneltrap.org/node/452 diff --git a/user/pochu.mdwn b/user/pochu.mdwn index 164f8900..9cf12133 100644 --- a/user/pochu.mdwn +++ b/user/pochu.mdwn @@ -26,26 +26,19 @@ 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 +* July 18th: GLib finished. +* July 22nd: coreutils finished. +* July 25th: All Perl failures investigated. +* August 5th: Perl finished. +* August 8th: All Python failures investigated. +* August 16th: Python finished. * 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 +* Implement SCM_RIGHTS support for UNIX sockets. * 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) @@ -54,6 +47,23 @@ fixing them. ## Log +### July 19th - July 25th +* + +### July 14th - July 18th +* Catched up with email. +* Prepared a patch to implement getsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_TYPE, ...). + Patch committed to Hurd. +* Addressed comments in the /dev/fd/N patches and resent them. +* Investigated another glib's unix-fd failure: passing fds over a socket using + sendmsg() doesn't dup them. Created a minimal testcase. Prepared a preliminary + patch, needs testing and fixing. + +### May 26 - July 13th +* Copyright assignment on file. +* Studied a lot to finish my BSc. +* Got the linkat patch (Savannah #29655) committed upstream. + ### 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. @@ -92,3 +102,18 @@ fixing them. 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. + +## Midterm Evaluation +### Accomplished +* Assigned copyright to the FSF. +* Read many documentation and source code. +* /dev/fd/N bug fixed +* Prepared a patch for getsockopt() +* Fixed linkat() problems. +* Investigated bug with O_NOFOLLOW & O_NOTRANS (needs more work). +* Investigated a glib test failure (garray). Not a Hurd issue. +### Downtime +* Studied a lot to finish my BSc. Didn't work on Hurd for a month because of + that, so that's why I couldn't make a lot of progress (this was known in + advance, although in the end the downtime was a bit larger than expected). +* There's no expected downtime from now on. |