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diff --git a/news/2010-05-31.mdwn b/news/2010-05-31.mdwn index d03c8c5d..b7a5eb6e 100644 --- a/news/2010-05-31.mdwn +++ b/news/2010-05-31.mdwn @@ -20,18 +20,24 @@ else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] [[!cut id="full_news" text=""" -> This month Zheng Da +> This month [[Zheng_Da|user/zhengda]] > [reported](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00037.html) > on the state of porting DDE linux26 to the Hurd, -> which can improve the GNU Hurd Hardware support a lot: - ->> I tested pcnet32, ne2k-pci, rtl8139, e1000. pcnet32 works in ->> both VMWare and qemu. Only qemu emulates ne2k-pci and rtl8139 cards and both DDE ->> drivers work well in qemu. — [[Zheng_Da|user/zhengda]] +> which can improve the GNU Hurd Hardware support a lot. +> The drivers emulated by qemu and vmware already work fine, +> but it still needs work to run on real hardware. > Also Sergio Lopez > [added some patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00106.html) -> to prevent thread storms when synchronizing large pagers in ext2fs. They should improve performance for high throughput situations. +> to prevent thread storms when synchronizing large pagers in ext2fs. They should improve performance when many files are accessed at the same time. + +> And Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, Carl Fredrik Hammar and others developed some patches ( +> [auth](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00003.html), +> [exec](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00108.html), +> [tmpfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00076.html), +> … ) +> to fix or improve the semantics of various internal hurd servers, +> to avoid some bugs or improve performance, > Additionally Justus Winter created a [live CD](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00033.html) > with an installation wizard in the spirit of the OpenBSD installer. @@ -39,6 +45,6 @@ else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] > And the [scheduled IRC meetings for Google Summer of code](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00148.html) are continuing on Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30 UTC. If you want to catch up on them, you can have a look at the [channel logs](http://richtlijn.be/~larstiq/hurd/). -> <small>*PS: As the amount of new developments on the Hurd has increased quite a bit since the start of the ‘Month of the Hurd’, these news are only a selection of the items you can already test yourself. There’s more in our [[mailing_lists]]. The rough criterium for the Month of the Hurd is “can you already test it and can I say why it is great for the Hurd at large?” — [[Arne_Babenhauserheide|community/weblogs/ArneBab]]*</small> +> <small>*PS: As the amount of new developments on the Hurd has increased quite a bit since the start of the ‘Month of the Hurd’, these news are only a selection of the items you can already test yourself. There’s more in our [[mailing_lists]]. The rough criterium for the Month of the Hurd is “can you already test it and can I say why it is great for the Hurd at large?” There definitely is stuff I don’t understand well enough to explain here… — [[Arne_Babenhauserheide|community/weblogs/ArneBab]]*</small> """]] |