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| author | jbranso@dismail.de <jbranso@dismail.de> | 2024-10-20 21:00:29 -0400 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2024-11-12 00:11:46 +0100 |
| commit | 75546e6f96553f3a830f5f6e1cd94bb40888e56c (patch) | |
| tree | f7e406474bd121d7028b0f5fc5ea0e964e3fcd3a /open_issues/running_rump_for_slash.mdwn | |
| parent | 8647abf52c8583ad80390874c1476186d327467f (diff) | |
Updated information about rump.
I added some more tweaks here Samuel. I think I finally got decent
guide that shows people how to try out rumpdisk.
* community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn: mention that
Damien implemented rumpdisk & rumpusbdisk.
* hurd/rump.mdwn: added links to other pages.
* hurd/rump/rumpdisk.mdwn: new file
* hurd/rump/rumpusbdisk.mdwn: new file
* hurd/rump/rumpsound.mdwn: new file
* hurd/rump/rumpnet.mdwn: new file
* hurd/rump/rumpfs.mdwn: new file.
* hurd/documentation.mdwn: add links to dde and rump
* faq/sata_disk_drives.mdwn: mention rumpdisk.
Message-ID: <20241021010033.9160-1-jbranso@dismail.de>
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diff --git a/open_issues/running_rump_for_slash.mdwn b/open_issues/running_rump_for_slash.mdwn index 52c97b5d..0740993e 100644 --- a/open_issues/running_rump_for_slash.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/running_rump_for_slash.mdwn @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag open_issue_hurd]] +## Samuel's [[email|https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2019-12/msg00002.html]] + I have been thinking about how to get rump running for the / filesystem. Looking at how things go between ext2fs and exec: in grub.cfg we have @@ -51,3 +53,20 @@ and we'd make `pci-arbiter`'s initialization use `task_set_special_port` to set the `TASK_BOOTSTRAP_PORT` special port of rump to a send right to pci-arbiter and resume it. When `libpciaccess` sees that this port is set, it would use it instead of looking up `/server/bus/pci`. + +## Damien's [[follow up email|https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2020-04/msg00032.html]] + +In my own words, the changes that are needed: + +1. libpciaccess needs to check if pci-arbiter's `task_bootstrap_port` is set +and if it is, use it instead of `/servers/bus/pci` + +2. pci-arbiter needs to call `task_set_special_port` on rump's `TASK_BOOTSTRAP_PORT` +if `--disk-server-task` flag is detected. + +3. rumpdisk needs to call `task_set_special_port` on ext2fs's `TASK_BOOTSTRAP_PORT` +if `--fs-server-task` flag is detected. + +4. ext2fs will just work in this configuration + + |