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| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/rump/rumpdisk.mdwn | 62 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/rump/rumpfs.mdwn | 31 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/rump/rumpnet.mdwn | 41 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/rump/rumpsound.mdwn | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/rump/rumpusbdisk.mdwn | 26 |
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diff --git a/hurd/rump/rumpdisk.mdwn b/hurd/rump/rumpdisk.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..33e37ff7 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/rump/rumpdisk.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 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 +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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag stable_URL]] + +# RumpDisk + +The Hurd supports modern SATA devices like SSDs with RumpDisk. If you +successfully installed the Hurd in real hardware, via toggling the +"compatibility" mode in your BIOS, then the Hurd is probably using old +Linux drivers to access your hard drive/SSD. Even more problematic, +those drivers are baked into the GNU Mach kernel! With rumpdisk, you +can use SSDs on the Hurd and enjoy a max partition size of [[2 +TiB|faq/2_gib_partition_limit]]! + +If you want to test if the Hurd can boot with your SSD, change any +occurence of `hdN` in `/boot/grub/grub.cfg` to `wdN`, where `N` is a +number, and add the `noide` option on the `multiboot` line, +(which disables the old Linux disk drivers). Also change any occurence +of `hdN` in your `/etc/fstab` to `wdN`. + + /boot/grub/grub.cfg + + # multiboot /boot/gnumach-1.8-486.gz root=part:2:device:hd0 console=com0 + multiboot /boot/gnumach-1.8-486.gz root=part:2:device:wd0 console=com0 noide + + /etc/fstab + + #/dev/hd0s2 / ext2 defaults 0 1 + /dev/wd0s2 / ext2 defaults 0 1 + #/dev/hd0s1 none swap sw 0 0 + /dev/wd0s1 none swap sw 0 0 + #/dev/hd2 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 noauto 0 0 + /dev/wd2 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 noauto 0 0 + +Then reboot your machine. Before Grub appears change "compatibility" +in your BIOS to "AHCI" (not "RAID"). If you successfully boot, +congrats! You are now using rumpdisk! You can permanently add in the +"noide" option to grub: + + /etc/default/grub + + # make sure you add this next line somewhere in the file + GRUB_CMDLINE_GNUMACH="noide" + +Now you can run `update-grub`. That way when you update the kernel, +you can be sure to use rumpdisk. + +rumpdisk is normally already set up on `/dev/rumpdisk`. + + $ showtrans /dev/rumpdisk + /hurd/rumpdisk + +[[!inline pages=open_issues/running_rump_for_slash raw=yes feeds=no]] diff --git a/hurd/rump/rumpfs.mdwn b/hurd/rump/rumpfs.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8236defa --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/rump/rumpfs.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 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 +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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag stable_URL]] + +# What is rumpfs? + +`Rumpfs` would let us use the [[NetBSD +filesystems|https://man.netbsd.org/fstab.5]], namely FFS, which is a +journaled filesystem that supports snapshots. This is a significant +improvement over the Hurd's current filesystem: +[[ext2|hurd/translator/ext2fs]], which forces users to deal with +occassional filesystem corruption. With FFS, this would no longer be +an issue, and NetBSD developers would maintain the FFS codebase. + +As of October 2024, rumpfs still needs to be implemented. + +Another option is to create an ext3fs. We have a +[[task|https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5498]] for this, which mentions +some existing experimental code. + +Another option is to create translators out of +[[libguestfs|hurd/translator/libguestfs]]. diff --git a/hurd/rump/rumpnet.mdwn b/hurd/rump/rumpnet.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ec67d6b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/rump/rumpnet.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 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 +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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag stable_URL]] + +# RumpNet + +The Hurd is currently using an old Linux's TCP/IP stack (`pfinet`) and +device drivers. Hurd developers are replacing Linux's old ethernet +drivers with rumpnet's modern ethernet and wifi device drivers. While +porting Linux's device drivers would provide better hardware support, +we do not have the developer man-power to maintain it. Hurd +Developers prefer rumpnet's stable API over Linux's code churn. We +plan to replace `pfinet` with [[lwip|hurd/translator/lwip]] (or use +rump's TCP/IP stack). + +In 2025, Damien Zammit make significant progress with rumpnet. He +coded rumpnet to work with `/dev/wmX` cards, which are Intel i8254x +Gigabit Ethernet devices. (Documentation is available at +man.netbsd.org's [wm(4)](https://man.netbsd.org/wm.4) web +page). Please note that these are ethernet cards not wifi cards. This +should be easily extended to support other NICs by contributing to +netbsd/rump's makefiles. + +Example usage: + + $ settrans -fgap /dev/rumpnet /hurd/rumpnet + $ settrans -fgap /dev/wm0 /hurd/devnode -M /dev/rumpnet wm0 + $ settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i /dev/wm0 + $ ifup /dev/wm0 + + + diff --git a/hurd/rump/rumpsound.mdwn b/hurd/rump/rumpsound.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f8f113e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/rump/rumpsound.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 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 +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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag stable_URL]] + +rumpsound lets us use audio devices on the Hurd. There is an +experimental/basic [[hurd rump audio +translator|https://github.com/dm0-/hurd-rump-audio]] that exists. The +translator runs at `/dev/audio`, which is somehow similiar to a +Solaris audio device. Any application that supports pulseaudio, can +play through this device. + +Some Hurd developers, believe that pulseaudio may not be the best +choice for supporting sound on the Hurd. Damien Zammit has several +[[ideas|https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2019-11/msg00086.html]] +how to get proper sound support on the Hurd. The [[audio +page|open_issues/audio]] has more information. diff --git a/hurd/rump/rumpusbdisk.mdwn b/hurd/rump/rumpusbdisk.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8463e670 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/rump/rumpusbdisk.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 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 +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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag stable_URL]] + +# RumpUSBDisk + +With RumpUSBDisk, the Hurd can use a usb to SATA dongle to access a +SATA device. StarTech offers a good quality dongle that works +well. The Hurd could then read/write data from a SATA device with an +fatfs or ext2 filesystem. Damien Zammit implemented [[rumpusbdisk +already|https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2023-07/msg00025.html]]. +However, as of October 2024, netdde seems to exhibit a bug when +running `ifdown /dev/eth0` simultaneously to running the rumpusbdisk +translator, due to the two devices sharing the same IRQ. + + + |