From 0700291c72e27c81acb00a3c5da07b36accf2c90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:00:28 +0100 Subject: Begun the news entry for 2009-11-30. --- news/2009-11-30.mdwn | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 news/2009-11-30.mdwn (limited to 'news') diff --git a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c7c8c63a --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta date="2009-11-30 00:00 UTC"]] + +[[!meta updated="2009-11-30 00:00 UTC"]] + +A month of the Hurd: **, ** and **. +[[!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 +> +> Also +> + +"""]] -- cgit v1.2.3 From 5e3c35b4b60ad45b9f9e8652accf50cc7dee1877 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:23:16 +0100 Subject: News: Added network in userspace. --- news/2009-11-30.mdwn | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'news') diff --git a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn index c7c8c63a..68a78c27 100644 --- a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn +++ b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn @@ -12,13 +12,18 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta updated="2009-11-30 00:00 UTC"]] -A month of the Hurd: **, ** and **. +A month of the Hurd: *network in userspace*, ** and **. [[!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 +> 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 > -- cgit v1.2.3 From 325fa58a69e5ce70b78b2571185c3ae481f38daa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:44:24 +0100 Subject: Added grub2 native install. --- news/2009-11-30.mdwn | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'news') diff --git a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn index 68a78c27..5c6d3e0f 100644 --- a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn +++ b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta updated="2009-11-30 00:00 UTC"]] -A month of the Hurd: *network in userspace*, ** and **. +A month of the Hurd: *network in userspace* and *grub2 from hurd*. [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] @@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] > that moving networking on the Hurd into user space can be done > without losing (much) performance. > -> Also +> 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. > """]] -- cgit v1.2.3 From 5f616fc393c91bdb4c3b0375265b82a89a81b2df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:03:49 +0100 Subject: news: grub version should be 1.97+20091130-1 which doesn't have the segfault. --- news/2009-11-30.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'news') diff --git a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn index 5c6d3e0f..1f288481 100644 --- a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn +++ b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] > 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) +> Also thanks to Samuel Thibault, the latest grub2 package (1.97+20091130-1) > [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), -- cgit v1.2.3 From bb220d8bc7e19e7673a4fbe79f5935f991995f18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:58:08 +0100 Subject: news/2009-11-30: Extend some more. --- news/2009-11-30.mdwn | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'news') diff --git a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn index 1f288481..a5b0a2ad 100644 --- a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn +++ b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn @@ -12,24 +12,42 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!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+20091130-1) -> [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, as well as he fixed a kernel panic in the kernel's floating point +> support code. """]] -- cgit v1.2.3 From 031f085cc952efff7e5f8c0f3f3e7be9eea0f2a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:50:07 +0100 Subject: news/2009-11-30: Improve wording as suggested by Olaf. --- news/2009-11-30.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'news') diff --git a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn index a5b0a2ad..da5526e2 100644 --- a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn +++ b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn @@ -48,6 +48,6 @@ else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] > 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, as well as he fixed a kernel panic in the kernel's floating point +> code, and he fixed a kernel panic in the kernel's floating point > support code. """]] -- cgit v1.2.3 From 40c957dd0b34e96f871136618f2b23a3643e3cae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:01:30 +0100 Subject: news/2009-11-30: Finalize. --- news/2009-11-30.mdwn | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'news') diff --git a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn index da5526e2..86a575bc 100644 --- a/news/2009-11-30.mdwn +++ b/news/2009-11-30.mdwn @@ -8,9 +8,7 @@ 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 updated="2009-11-30 00:00 UTC"]] +[[!meta date="2009-12-03 11:00 UTC"]] A month of the Hurd: initial work on *network device drivers in user space*, *GRUB 2*. -- cgit v1.2.3