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diff --git a/news/2009-10-31.mdwn b/news/2009-10-31.mdwn index d3ede8f6..db3537d0 100644 --- a/news/2009-10-31.mdwn +++ b/news/2009-10-31.mdwn @@ -8,25 +8,42 @@ 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 date="2009-10-31 00:00 UTC"]] +[[!meta date="2009-11-02 22:39 UTC"]] -[[!meta updated="2009-10-31 00:00 UTC"]] - -A month of the Hurd: *New LiveCDs* and further *git migration*. +A month of the Hurd: new *installation CDs*, further *Git migration*, +*porting*. [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] [[!cut id="full_news" text=""" -> This month Philip Charles created a new [LiveCD](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/current/) for the Hurd, -> which brings us a big step towards installing the Hurd from the Hurd -> (without the need of a Linux based installer). -> If you enjoy testing stuff, please give it a try. -> -> Also Thomas Schwinge migrated the [nsmux](http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/hurd/translator/nsmux/) -> and cl-hurd *(lisp bindings)* repos into -> our [git repositories on Savannah](https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=hurd), -> making them easier to access for other contributors. -> +> This month Philip Charles created a new [installation +> CD](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/current/), the [L +> series](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/current/README-L1-disc-set), +> for the Hurd, which brings us a big step towards installing the Hurd from the +> Hurd (without the need of a Linux-based installer). If you enjoy testing +> stuff, please give it a try. + +> On the same front, Michael Banck uploaded a new version of +> [crosshurd](http://packages.debian.org/sid/crosshurd) that makes it again +> possible to use this package for creating a GNU/Hurd system image directly +> from Debian unstable packages. + +> Also, Thomas Schwinge migrated Sergiu Ivanov's [[hurd/translator/nsmux]], +> [[Flávio Cruz|flaviocruz]]' cl-hurd *(clisp bindings)*, and Carl Fredrik +> Hammar [[hurd/libchannel]] repositories into our new [*incubator* Git +> repository](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/), making +> them easier to access for other contributors. + +> Our bunch of porters continued to make further Debian packages usable on +> GNU/Hurd: Pino Toscano worked on a lot of packages, and Wesley W. Terpstra +> made [mlton](http://packages.debian.org/sid/mlton) build -- together with +> Samuel Thibault, who first had to enhance [[GNU +> Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] to support allocating more than 1 GiB of RAM +> to one user-space process, which mlton needs. +> On the go, Samuel also fixed a number of other bugs here and there, for +> example together with Eric Blake and Roland McGrath hashed out a difficile +> issue in the filesystem servers regarding POSIX conformance and system +> stability. """]] diff --git a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn index 5c6d3e0f..86a575bc 100644 --- a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn +++ b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn @@ -8,28 +8,44 @@ 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 date="2009-11-30 00:00 UTC"]] +[[!meta date="2009-12-03 11:00 UTC"]] -[[!meta updated="2009-11-30 00:00 UTC"]] - -A month of the Hurd: *network in userspace* and *grub2 from hurd*. +A month of the Hurd: initial work on *network device drivers in user space*, +*GRUB 2*. [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] [[!cut id="full_news" text=""" -> This month Zheng Da ported the pcnet32 driver into user space -> and did some preliminary -> [performance tests](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-11/msg00144.html). -> The test results were mostly on par with the in-kernel driver, so they show -> that moving networking on the Hurd into user space can be done -> without losing (much) performance. -> -> Also thanks to Samuel Thibault, the latest grub2 package (1.97+20091125-1) -> [supports native installation](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2009/11/msg00095.html) -> from GNU/Hurd itself. Grub was originally designed -> [to allow booting of GNU/Hurd systems](http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#History), -> so this step brings it closer to its original purpose again. -> +> This month [[Zheng Da|zhengda]], our [[former Google Summer of Code student +> working on network virtualization and some related +> topics|community/gsoc/2008]], published the code for the pcnet32 device +> driver that he had modified to run as a user-space process instead of inside +> the kernel, and posted some preliminary [performance benchmark +> results](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-11/msg00144.html). +> The test results are mostly on par with the in-kernel driver, so they show +> that moving the lower-layer parts of the networking stack, the device drivers +> themselves, into user space can be done without losing (much) performance. +> Given this encouraging start, work is going on to explore whether the [Device +> Driver Environment](http://wiki.tudos.org/DDE/DDEKit) that has been created +> for L4-based systems can be used for [providing GNU/Hurd systems with device +> drivers](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-11/msg00241.html) +> that (a) are more recent than our current ones, (b) support classes of +> devices that [[we don't support so +> far|microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list]], and (c) are +> running as (possibly separate, fault-isolated) user-space processes. + +> Thanks to Samuel Thibault, the latest Debian GRUB 2 package (1.97+20091130-1) +> [supports native +> installation](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2009/11/msg00095.html) from +> GNU/Hurd itself -- booting GNU/Hurd systems with GRUB has always been +> working, but until now it wasn't possible to *install* GRUB from a GNU/Hurd +> system. GNU GRUB has originally been written [for booting GNU/Hurd +> systems](http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#History), so this +> step completes its original purpose. +> Samuel also continued to work on preparing the [[Xen branch of GNU +> Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen]] for being merged with the mainline +> code, and he fixed a kernel panic in the kernel's floating point +> support code. """]] diff --git a/news/2009-12-31.mdwn b/news/2009-12-31.mdwn index 6077ee50..286350d1 100644 --- a/news/2009-12-31.mdwn +++ b/news/2009-12-31.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010 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 @@ -8,46 +8,78 @@ 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 date="2009-12-31 00:00 UTC"]] +[[!meta date="2009-12-31 17:33 UTC"]] -[[!meta updated="2009-12-31 00:00 UTC"]] - -A month of the Hurd: *official Xen domU support*, *ddekit beginnings*, *porting*, *FOSDEM 2010* and *SMP discussion*. +A month of the Hurd: *official Xen domU support*, *DDE*, *porting*, and *FOSDEM 2010*. [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] [[!cut id="full_news" text=""" -> This month Samuel Thibault got the necessary Xen patches committed -> into the unstable tree of Xen for the 4.0 release, -> so GNU Mach now officially [has Xen domU support](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-12/msg00058.html) -> (GNU Mach instead of GNU Hurd, because -> no changes were needed in the Hurd part). So from Xen 4.0 on you'll be able -> to run the GNU Hurd directly using pv-grub - without the need to -> [prepare a multiboot package](http://youpibouh.thefreecat.org/hurd-xen/build_hurd-modules). -> -> Also the ddekit port of Zheng Da now -> [passes the first tests](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-12/msg00060.html), -> bringing us the first steps towards updated drivers - -> and much lower overhead for maintaining them. -> -> Mainly thanks to the [porting](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/debian/porting.html) -> work of Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Pino Toscano, -> users of the Hurd can get many more packages directly via debian. -> Thanks to their and other porters relentless work, -> the percentage of available debian packages -> [has reached 65%](http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/), -> rising. As concrete example, they ported many GNOME packages, -> so that the gnome-core metapackage -> [is installable again](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-12/msg00217.html). -> -> Additionally Thomas Schwinge started the planning for -> [a GNU Hurd meeting at FOSDEM](http://www.thomas.schwinge.homeip.net/hurd-web/community/meetings/fosdem_2010.html] -> on February 6th/7th 2010 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. -> -> And some questions from Tim Kack from the view of a GNUstep developer -> spawned an extensive discussion about -> [SMP on the Hurd](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-12/msg00089.html). + +> This month Samuel Thibault [merged his development branch into GNU Mach's +> master +> branch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-12/msg00058.html) -- +> meaning that his [[GNU Mach Xen domU +> port|microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen]] is now part of the official +> sources. Only the [[microkernel (GNU Mach)|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] needed +> to be extended, and no changes were needed in the Hurd, or glibc code bases. +> He had started this port in 2007 already, but it has been in heavy use over +> the last two years already, so merging it into the main source bases was long +> overdue. + +> He also got the necessary Xen patches committed into Xen's unstable branch, +> so that from Xen's 4.0 release on you'll be able to boot GNU/Hurd systems +> using `pv-grub`, without the need to prepare a special bootstrap image (like +> an initrd). + +> Of course, running GNU/Hurd systems in other virtualization environments is +> possible too, but the Xen domU approach offers superior performance compared +> to [[hurd/running/QEMU]]'s machine emulation, for example. + +> Samuel also spent some time on adding code for [detecting invalid (duplicate) +> port +> deallocations](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2009-12/msg00016.html), +> and started fixing these, as well as he fulfilled his usual share of +> miscellaneous bug fixing. + +> The [[DDE]] port of Zheng Da now [passes the first +> tests](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-12/msg00060.html), +> bringing us the first steps towards updated device drivers -- and much lower +> overhead for maintaining them. + +> Now that the Debian GNU/Hurd build stats are again hosted on the [master +> Debian build machine](https://buildd.debian.org/stats/), Debian developers +> see their packages' build failures more prominently, and quite a few started +> to fix their packages. + +> Thus, thanks to the [[hurd/running/debian/porting]] work of mainly Emilio Pozuelo +> Monfort and Pino Toscano, users of the Hurd can get many more packages +> directly via the [[Debian GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] distribution. +> Thanks to their and the other porters' relentless work, the percentage of +> available Debian packages [has reached +> 66%](https://buildd.debian.org/stats/hurd-i386.txt), rising. For a specific example, +> they ported many GNOME packages, so that the `gnome-core` metapackage [is +> installable +> again](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-12/msg00217.html). +> Please test these and [[report back|mailing lists/debian-hurd]]. + +> Thomas Schwinge started the planning for [[a GNU Hurd folks meeting at +> FOSDEM|community/meetings/fosdem 2010]] on February 6th/7th 2010 at the +> Université Libre de Bruxelles. + +> Guillem Jover jumped in and started [fixing GNU Mach build +> warnings](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2009-12/msg00008.html) +> -- meaning that Thomas Schwinge's evil plan finally worked out, when he +> enabled `-Wall` in an October 2006 commit: > +> +# Yes, this makes the eyes hurt. But perhaps someone will finally take care of +> +# all that scruffy Mach code... Also see <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5726>. +> +AM_CFLAGS += \ +> + -Wall + +> --- + +> The GNU Hurd team wishes a pleasant Year 2010 to everyone! """]] |