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-rw-r--r--hurd/debugging/glibc.mdwn8
-rw-r--r--hurd/running/debian/patch_submission.mdwn22
-rw-r--r--hurd/running/qemu.mdwn7
-rw-r--r--hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn6
4 files changed, 30 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/debugging/glibc.mdwn b/hurd/debugging/glibc.mdwn
index e9817132..028d4fe4 100644
--- a/hurd/debugging/glibc.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/debugging/glibc.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010 Free Software Foundation,
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ 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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
Here are some hints about how to approach testing after nontrivial changes to
glibc have been done.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ newly created libraries and loader actually work: they'll be used to run the
Unless cross-compiling, the next thing you'll probably want to do
is running the test suite, or parts of it.
-There is a list of [[known failures|open_issues/glibc_testsuite]].
+There is a list of [[known failures|open_issues/glibc]].
---
diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/patch_submission.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/patch_submission.mdwn
index d2b7b776..1dd8a4db 100644
--- a/hurd/running/debian/patch_submission.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/debian/patch_submission.mdwn
@@ -28,20 +28,24 @@ either use the reportbug tool, or just simple mail. In any case, you should
follow these guidelines:
* The submission address is <submit@bugs.debian.org>.
+
* The mail's subject (which will become the bug's title) should be
`SOURCE-PACKAGE: FTBFS on hurd-i386: REASON`.
- * The first lines of the mail's body (the so-called *pseudo-header*):
- * `Severity: important` -- not *serious*.
- * `Version: VERSION` -- the version of the source package in unstable.
- * `Tags: patch` -- as/if you include a ready-to-be-applied patch.
- * `User: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org`
- * `Usertags: hurd`
-Please also add
+ * The first lines of the mail's body (the so-called *pseudo-header*):
-`X-Debbugs-CC: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org`
+ Package: PACKAGE
+ Severity: important -- not *serious*
+ Version: VERSION -- the version of the source package in unstable.
+ Tags: patch -- if you include a ready-to-be-applied patch.
+ User: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
+ Usertags: hurd
+ X-Debbugs-CC: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
-in the mail headers, so that the mailing list knows about your report.
+The last three lines are used to to change the current *User* to the specified
+value (the default is the email sender/from address), specify *Usertags* to add
+the specified tags for the current user, and *X-Debbugs-CC* so that the
+[[mailing list|mailing_lists/debian-hurd]] knows about your report.
In the bug description, mention that the package fails to build on hurd-i386
and (if possible) quote the failure. If possible, point to the failing build
diff --git a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
index 343707fa..b2812750 100644
--- a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
@@ -105,6 +105,13 @@ kernels, compared to 2.6.32: [[!debbug 634149]]. We're preparing on a change
on our side to work around this.
+# HAP/EPT/NPT acceleration
+
+Performance will be yet better if HAP (EPT or NPT) is available:
+
+ $ grep ept /proc/cpuinfo
+ $ grep npt /proc/cpuinfo
+
# Installing Debian/Hurd with QEMU using the Debian installer
Note: If you have hardware support, replace the qemu commands below with kvm, e.g. qemu-ing -> kvm-img.
diff --git a/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn b/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn
index 01bbea42..135b4a88 100644
--- a/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn
@@ -207,3 +207,9 @@ IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-07-25
< pinotree> and the mnt C api already returns no entries (or it bails out,
i don't remember)
< pinotree> not a strict need
+
+
+# `/proc/[PID]/auxv`, `/proc/[PID]/exe`, `/proc/[PID]/mem`
+
+Needed by glibc's `pldd` tool (commit
+11988f8f9656042c3dfd9002ac85dff33173b9bd).