From 70de4a0486378d418111537944049911efb6dc50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:40:38 +0100 Subject: Now that GRUB 2 is working, I don't see the need anymore for fixing GRUB Legacy. --- open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn | 37 ------------------------------ open_issues/grub_legacy/grub-install.patch | 23 ------------------- 2 files changed, 60 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn delete mode 100644 open_issues/grub_legacy/grub-install.patch (limited to 'open_issues') diff --git a/open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn b/open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 622daa09..00000000 --- a/open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,37 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 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 title="GRUB (legacy)"]] - -[[!tag open_issue_porting]] - -Even though it is customarily used *for* booting GNU/Hurd systems, [[GRUB]], -specifically GRUB legacy (which is still in wide-spread use, despite that -rather depricative nickname), has never been ported to be installable when -attempted to be installed *from* GNU/Hurd systems: - - # grub-install \(hd0\) - df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems - df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems - Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device. - -There is a patch, [[grub-install.patch]], to fix that. - - -`grub-install`, however, still fails while invoking `grub`: - - # grub-install \(hd0\) - The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly. - - # grub - [...] - grub> dump (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage1 /tmp/grub_stage1 - - Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS diff --git a/open_issues/grub_legacy/grub-install.patch b/open_issues/grub_legacy/grub-install.patch deleted file mode 100644 index 3f6341b4..00000000 --- a/open_issues/grub_legacy/grub-install.patch +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -2005-08-23 Thomas Schwinge - - * grub-install (find_device): Rough port for GNU/Hurd. - - ---- grub-install.orig 2005-08-23 16:56:02.000000000 +0200 -+++ grub-install 2005-08-23 17:01:55.000000000 +0200 -@@ -263,7 +263,14 @@ - find_device () { - # For now, this uses the program `df' to get the device name, but is - # this really portable? -- tmp_fname=`df $1/ | sed -n 's%.*\(/dev/[^ ]*\).*%\1%p'` -+ # No. (Not even on GNU/Linux.) - Thomas Schwinge -+ -+ case $host_os in -+ gnu*) # TODO: What about using multiple devices? -+ tmp_fname=`fsysopts $1/ | sed -n 's%.*device:\([^ ]*\).*%/dev/\1%p'`;; -+ *) -+ tmp_fname=`df $1/ | sed -n 's%.*\(/dev/[^ ]*\).*%\1%p'`;; -+ esac - - if test -z "$tmp_fname"; then - echo "Could not find device for $1" 2>&1 -- cgit v1.2.3 From b7f99a665b100d1e33fd14ad9463cada34acf543 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:49:25 +0100 Subject: Link related projects. --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn | 3 +++ open_issues/device_drivers_and_io_systems.mdwn | 1 + open_issues/user-space_device_drivers.mdwn | 1 + 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'open_issues') diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn index 04efe202..7da34d10 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ programming probably is a must. (No Hurd-specific knowledge is required, though.) This is [[!GNU_Savannah_task 5488]]. +[[open issues/user-space device drivers]]. +[[open issues/device drivers and io systems]]. + Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) diff --git a/open_issues/device_drivers_and_io_systems.mdwn b/open_issues/device_drivers_and_io_systems.mdwn index f84ddce8..53a8287b 100644 --- a/open_issues/device_drivers_and_io_systems.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/device_drivers_and_io_systems.mdwn @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ This is a collection of resources concerning *device drivers* and *I/O systems* in general. Also see [[user-space device drivers]]. +[[community/gsoc/project ideas/driver glue code]]. [[!toc levels=2]] diff --git a/open_issues/user-space_device_drivers.mdwn b/open_issues/user-space_device_drivers.mdwn index 33e75942..7154392e 100644 --- a/open_issues/user-space_device_drivers.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/user-space_device_drivers.mdwn @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] This is a collection of resources concerning *user-space device drivers*. Also see [[device drivers and IO systems]]. +[[community/gsoc/project ideas/driver glue code]]. [[!toc levels=2]] -- cgit v1.2.3 From 062d85935a451a87e4dc71dba5c3f4468e8ce6bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:16:51 +0100 Subject: open_issues/dde: New page. --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn | 2 +- open_issues/dde.mdwn | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++ open_issues/device_drivers_and_io_systems.mdwn | 2 ++ open_issues/user-space_device_drivers.mdwn | 4 ++++ 4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 open_issues/dde.mdwn (limited to 'open_issues') diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn index 7da34d10..19a1cab4 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ versions, or from one of the free BSD variants. While it would be certainly possible to create custom glue code again, a more sustainable and probably also easier approch is to use -[ddekit](http://demo.tudos.org/dsweeper_tutorial.html) instead -- it already +[[open issues/DDE]] instead -- it already does the hard work of providing an environment where the foreign drivers can run, and has the additional advantage of being externally maintained. diff --git a/open_issues/dde.mdwn b/open_issues/dde.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3d1de09a --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/dde.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +[[!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]]."]]"""]] + + * [[community/gsoc/project ideas/driver glue code]] + + * [[open issues/user-space device drivers]] + + * [[open issues/device drivers and io systems]] + +--- + +# Documentation + + * + + * + + +# Sources + + * diff --git a/open_issues/device_drivers_and_io_systems.mdwn b/open_issues/device_drivers_and_io_systems.mdwn index 53a8287b..ce50d93e 100644 --- a/open_issues/device_drivers_and_io_systems.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/device_drivers_and_io_systems.mdwn @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ Also see [[user-space device drivers]]. # External Projects + * [[DDE]] + * [Building Linux Device Drivers on FreeBSD](http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/linux_bsd_kld.html) diff --git a/open_issues/user-space_device_drivers.mdwn b/open_issues/user-space_device_drivers.mdwn index 7154392e..98f48013 100644 --- a/open_issues/user-space_device_drivers.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/user-space_device_drivers.mdwn @@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ Also see [[device drivers and IO systems]]. * Hurd on L4: deva, fabrica + * [[DDE]] + * Minix 3 * Start with a simple driver and implement the needed infrastructure (see @@ -151,6 +153,8 @@ Also see [[device drivers and IO systems]]. # External Projects + * [[DDE]] + * * -- cgit v1.2.3