From 54e2e63516bf60b9650d2b1e438fedce57c8ca46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:40:55 +0200 Subject: open_issues/mach-defpager_vs_defpager: New. --- open_issues/mach-defpager_vs_defpager.mdwn | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 open_issues/mach-defpager_vs_defpager.mdwn (limited to 'open_issues') diff --git a/open_issues/mach-defpager_vs_defpager.mdwn b/open_issues/mach-defpager_vs_defpager.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d6976706 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/mach-defpager_vs_defpager.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 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 +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 open_issue_gnumach open_issue_hurd]] + +\#hurd, 2010, end of May / beginning of June + + whats the difference between mach-defpager and defpager? + i'm guessing defpager is a hurdish version that uses libstore but was never finished or something + found an interesting thread about it: http://mirror.libre.fm/hurd/list/msg01232.html + antrik: an interesting thread, indeed :-) + slpz: btw is mach-defpager linked statically but not called mach-defpager.static on purpose? + antrik: also, I can confirm that mach-defpager needs a complete rewrite ;-) + pochu: I think the original defpager was launched by serverboot + pochu: that could be the reason to have it static, like ext2fs + and since there's no need to execute it again during the normal operation of the system, they probably decided to not create a dynamically linked version + (but I'm just guessing) + of perhaps they wanted to prevent mach-defpager from the need of reading libraries, since it's used when memory is really scarce (guessing again) -- cgit v1.2.3