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Re: [Hurd-devel-readers] Re: Checks-syms results


From: Jeroen Dekkers
Subject: Re: [Hurd-devel-readers] Re: Checks-syms results
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:58:57 +0100
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On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 11:46:16AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx> writes:
> 
> > I already asked Marcus and Jeff on IRC whether OSKit-Mach is going to
> > be gnumach 2.0. 
> 
> For what it's worth, I have no particular objection, however it's
> really a sort of one-shot switch.  Once we switch, we blow away the
> old gnumach, and we're switched, with whatever bugs that entails.  

I don't think OSKit-Mach will have a lot more bugs than gnumach,
especially bugs which can't be fixed.
 
> (Well, we might choose to do parallel releases like Linux, but I
> really think that's more effort than it's worth for us, at this
> point.)  

I don't think we will ever need it. When we have enough manpower we
could just do it Right and implement more things in user-space, like
device drivers. Then those device drivers can all have their own
stable releases. I think the device driver part is the biggest thing
in Mach.

> > Having the same ABI for GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd would be nice,
> > especially for the Debian project. A lot of the linux-* binaries could
> > be the same as the hurd-* binaries. This is certainly appreciated with
> > a hurd-powerpc port underway. ;-)
> 
> This is definitely true, and it's a long-term goal, but not a
> short-term one.

Depends on how you define short and long. In the long-term everybody
might just use GNU/Hurd. (Yeah, maybe I'm a bit too optimistic :-)

Jeroen Dekkers
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