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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU Hurd Task List Version 1.17. Last updated 3 September 1996. +GNU Hurd Task List Version 1.18. Last updated 21 August 1997. If you would like to work on one of these, please contact thomas@gnu.ai.mit.edu. It's important that you let me know what's being @@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ General system work * Compile all the free programs you can find to help us fix bugs in the system, and to submit necessary ports to the maintainers of - those programs. A good place to start is the list in SOURCES under - the heading `Give up'. + those programs. * See how much of X compiles. @@ -25,23 +24,15 @@ General system work Mach 3.0 Work -If you plan to work on the microkernel, you should be on the mailing list -for the University of Utah's Mach4 distribution; that is the microkernel -distribution that GNU will use. To get on the mailing list, send mail to -mach4-users-request@schirf.cs.utah.edu. You should discuss proposed -microkernel work there as well as with mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu. +We now have our own distribution of the microkernel. Please discuss +proposed microkernel work there as well as with thomas@gnu.ai.mit.edu. !!! * Mach 3.0 needs many new device drivers for popular PC devices. - Shantanu Goel at Utah is doing work in this area; coordinate with him. + Shantanu Goel is doing work in this area; coordinate with him. !!! - * A replacement for MiG that understood C .h files. - Utah is working on a new IDL compiler; coordinate with them. - - * Bootstrap tools and documentation to help people set up Mach 3.0 - machines if they already have Linux; if they already have Net BSD; - if they don't have anything. (See Utah Lites dist.) + * A replacement for MiG that understands C .h files. !!! * Mach 3.0 needs to provide support for task virtual timers similar @@ -68,24 +59,22 @@ microkernel work there as well as with mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu. * Utah Mach needs the OSF vm_remap call. * Mach 3.0 needs a replacement for MEMORY_OBJECT_COPY_CALL that - works at least for the cases needed in ordinary files. (Write mib if - you want to know what the problem is and some ideas about how to - solve it.) + works at least for the cases needed in ordinary files. (Write + thomas if you want to know what the problem is and some ideas about + how to solve it.) !!! - * Mach 3.0 needs proxy memory objects. (mib can tell you what these - are and why they are important.) + * Mach 3.0 needs proxy memory objects. (thomas can tell you what + these are and why they are important.) * Mach 3.0 needs a way to do per-task resource counters that are accessible to servers called by the task. - * Mach 3.0 should keep a timestamp of the creation of each task. - * Mach 3.0 needs facilities to implement resource limits of various sorts. * Mach 3.0 needs a way to have a thread's CPU time statistics include time spent by servers on its behalf. [This has been done - for the migrating-threads version of Mach; talk to mib before starting + for the migrating-threads version of Mach; talk to thomas before starting work on it.] * Of course, free ports are always necessary to machines that don't @@ -94,12 +83,6 @@ microkernel work there as well as with mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu. * Much work can be done doing research in how to improve Mach VM performance and timesharing scheduling policy. -!!! - * We need a good malloc for multi-threaded programs that uses - vm_allocate. It should probably be based on the current GNU malloc, - as well as merge the mmalloc interfaces used by some existing GNU - packages. - * Mach 3.0 needs facilities to get a list of all the devices which can be device_open'd, as well as to get the type of a device. @@ -119,7 +102,7 @@ microkernel work there as well as with mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu. * Add an anonymous swap allocation statistic to the task info structure. -Hurd work (these are brief descriptions; mib can give more information): +Hurd work (these are brief descriptions; thomas can give more information): !!! * An RPC trace program to aid debugging. Ask roland for more info. |