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| author | jbranso@dismail.de <jbranso@dismail.de> | 2024-09-20 21:02:18 -0400 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2024-09-22 22:16:49 +0200 |
| commit | 3ac85c9ed292a23788dc8ecb4a3214275ad01699 (patch) | |
| tree | 6b3a3fde6e880dd8f3ef338000a0f5f0b7ea2501 | |
| parent | 53855dc425d02fb98e736698c06b71e1fa47c0b7 (diff) | |
I added some info about a system port
* faq/system_port.mdwn: mentioned Sergey as an expert in system port,
since he completed the AArch64 port. I also bragged that Debian is
probably the most "complete" GNU/Hurd distribution.
Message-ID: <20240921010651.5189-5-jbranso@dismail.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | faq/system_port.mdwn | 20 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/faq/system_port.mdwn b/faq/system_port.mdwn index ca96697c..9c47ca6c 100644 --- a/faq/system_port.mdwn +++ b/faq/system_port.mdwn @@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ system functionality is usually accessed through the [[/libpthread]]. A whole-system port involves touching all these components, with varying -degree, of course. +degree, of course. In 2024, Sergey Bugaev completed an experimental +system port to AArch64, so be sure to consult him, if you are +considering a system port. For a CPU architecture port, the microkernel is the most involved part, followed by glibc and the threading library. @@ -30,10 +32,18 @@ The original [[microkernel/Mach]] microkernel was portable to a number of architectures which were a lot more popular at the beginning of the 1990s than they are now. -The GNU/Hurd system is currently available for the x86 architecture. This -includes emulators such as [[hurd/running/QEMU]] (or KVM), or -[[hurd/running/VirtualBox]]. Besides this, there is a port for the [[Xen -domU|microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen]] *sub-architecture*. +The Debian GNU/Hurd system is currently available for the x86 and +X86_64 architectures and it is probably the most up-to-date with about +70% of Debian's packages available. There also exists an experimental +GNU/Hurd AArch64 port. Contact Sergey if you are interested in running +the Hurd on AArch64. You can also run the Hurd with emulators such as +[[hurd/running/QEMU]] (or KVM), or [[hurd/running/VirtualBox]]. +Besides this, there is a port for the [[Xen +domU|microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen]] *sub-architecture*. With +Xen, you can run the Hurd and GNU/Linux in parallel. If you are +already running Guix System, then +[[childhurds|https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Virtualization-Services]] +are probably the easiest way to try out the Hurd. Further on, there are some [[unfinished porting attempts|microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports]] for the Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC |