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Name: Flávio Cruz

Email: flaviocruz at gmail dot com

Some [Hurd stuff](http://opensvn.csie.org/leic/hurd/)

And code: [cl-hurd](http://freehg.org/u/flavioc/cl-hurd/)

hg clone http://freehg.org/u/flavioc/cl-hurd/

## Summer session

### kernel-agnostic DEFRPC macro

Will involve the creation of an API that can generate new RPC calls as [MIG](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/mig.html) does but using Lisp macros.
This interface should be micro-kernel agnostic (see for instance [this](http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/hurd/ng/)).
Of course the inner layer will be for GNU Mach, but it should be easy to port it to future kernels.

### Libraries to bind

- some mach types and functions
- libports
- [specific hurd api in glibc](http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/hurd/glibc/hurd-specific_api/)
- fshelp
- iohelp

### RPC calls to bind

- io.defs
- fs.defs
- fsys.defs

### Pure lisp translator library

Once the bindings are working correctly, a libtrivfs translator like library should be written on top of that.

### 

## To do

### Documentation
- Manually Bootstrapping a Translator

### Translation
- Translate the Hurd website to Portuguese?

## Completed tasks

### Patches
- http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?group_id=30628&atid=410472
   - libsvg patch accepted.
- Adapted glibc patch (http://www.schwinge.homeip.net/~thomas/tmp/glibc-patches/0009-2007-07-22-version-of-init-first.c_vs._GCC_4.1.patch.patch)
   - http://opensvn.csie.org/leic/hurd/patches/glibc-init-first.patch
- Patch to remove some GNUMach IPC warnings and minor cleanup:
   - http://opensvn.csie.org/leic/hurd/patches/gnumach-ipc-warnings.patch
- Website patches that correct some encountered typos:
   - http://opensvn.csie.org/leic/hurd/patches/hurd-talk-typo.patch

### Documentation read

- GNU/Hurd User's Guide, an introduction to the important concepts and software of the GNU system, written for new users, AKA "GNUbies."
- Towards a New Strategy of OS Design, an architectural overview by Thomas Bushnell, BSG.
- The Hurd, a presentation by Marcus Brinkmann.
- The Hurd Hacking Guide.
- The GNU Mach Reference Manual
- The GNU Hurd Reference Manual
- The Unofficial GNU Mach IPC beginner's guide
- Mach IPC without MIG
- CFFI User's Manual

### Before selection

- Uptime program in C and Lisp using CFFI.
- Hello translator.

## Misc

### Lisp implementations that run on Hurd

- Clisp
- ECL
- ?