Merge branch 'master' of braunbox:~hurd-web/hurd-web

4 files changed, 23 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/microkernel/mach.mdwn b/microkernel/mach.mdwn
index 02627766..e9127a37 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
+[//]: # ([[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]])
 
 [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
 id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -9,17 +8,15 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
 is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
 License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
-Mach is a so-called first generation [[microkernel]].  It is the
+[[!meta title="Mach"]]
+
+Mach is a so-called first generation [[microkernel]]. Originally developed by Carnegie Mellon University (MCU) from 1985 to 1994, which was then forked and carried from 1996 onward by GNU. It is the
 microkernel currently used by the [[Hurd]].
 
   * [[Concepts]]
-
       * [[Deficiencies]]
-
   * [[Documentation]]
-
   * [[History]]
-
       * [Torvalds, Tanenbaum
         Debate](http://www.dina.dk/~abraham/Linus_vs_Tanenbaum.html)
 
@@ -27,11 +24,9 @@ microkernel currently used by the [[Hurd]].
 # Implementations
 
   * [[GNU_Mach|gnumach]]
-
   * [Apple's Darwin](http://developer.apple.com/darwin/)
     ([API](http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/index.html))
     (**non-free**)
-
   * [[open_issues/OSF_Mach]]
 
 
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/documentation.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/documentation.mdwn
index 821753d3..a4e455e4 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/documentation.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/documentation.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
-2010, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[//]: # ([[meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]])
 
 [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
 id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -9,6 +8,8 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
 is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
 License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
+[[!meta title="Mach Documentation"]]
+
   * Mach's [[concepts]].
 
   * [*Meet Mach* by James
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
   - [A Programmers' Guide to Mach System Call](http://shakthimaan.com/downloads/hurd/A.Programmers.Guide.to.the.Mach.System.Calls.pdf)
 
 
-# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-09-15
+### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-09-15
 
     <teythoon> braunr: btw, are there multiple kernel threads in gnumach?
     <teythoon> and is it safe to do a synchronous rpc call to a userspace server?
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach.mdwn
index 08331b04..9626161b 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016
-Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[//]: # (meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.")
 
 [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
 id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -9,6 +8,8 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
 is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
 License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
+[[!meta title="GNU Mach"]]
+
 GNU Mach is the microkernel upon which a GNU Hurd system is based.  It provides
 an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to define
 interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the services
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ GNU Mach runs on x86 machines.  See the
 
 The latest release is [[GNU Mach 1.8|news/2016-12-18-releases]].
 
-
+---
 # Advantages of GNU Mach
 
 GNU Mach is not the most advanced [[microkernel]] known to the planet, nor is
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ features which make it useful as the base of the [[Hurd]] system.
     Mach is the base of a functional multi-server operating system, the
     [[Hurd]].
 
-
+---
 # Booting
 
 To actually use the kernel and boot the GNU operating system, you need a boot
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ that supports the multiboot standard.  The bootloader of the GNU system is
 [[GNU_GRUB|grub]], which supports a broad range of operating systems including
 GNU/Hurd.
 
-
+---
 # Development
 
   * [[Reference_Manual]]
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/mig/gnu_mig/discussion.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/mig/gnu_mig/discussion.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..720cf92c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/microkernel/mach/mig/gnu_mig/discussion.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+`MutoShack, March 23, 2019` - Is GNU MIG obsolete as of glibc 2.28? "Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree patches". I don't currently have a build environment on this machine so I cannot check.