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Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?
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Ivan Shmakov |
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Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks? |
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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:18:32 +0700 |
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>>>>> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> writes:
>>>>> Ivan Shmakov, le Wed 28 Jul 2010 19:13:44 +0700, a écrit :
>>> - PPPoE/routing/NAT/packet filtering.
>> I'd much appreciate IPv6 support, and there will be virtually no
>> need for NAT for me then.
> AIUI, IPv6 is already supported.
Indeed. Somehow, I've failed to notice that.
>> • message passing on top of Linux:
>> – with a user-space daemon;
> Zheng Da's DDE work, yes.
As per [1], it's quite the contrary: running Linux device
drivers in user-space with Mach as the host kernel, while I'm
suggesting running Linux as the host, and Mach in user-space.
Somehow, I think that the latter would be a bit easier to
achieve.
>> Do I understand it correctly that once a Mach could be made to run
>> in user-space (the same trick as with User-mode Linux), making Hurd
>> run on top of it will be straightforward?
> I'd tend to think that, yes. You just need to be able to catch the
> few kernel traps (there are really only few of them), and off you go.
> The Xen port, for instance, didn't need *any* change below GNU Mach.
ACK, thanks.
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/dde.html
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- Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?, (continued)
- Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?, Carl Fredrik Hammar, 2010/07/12
- Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?, ms, 2010/07/12
- Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?, Michael S. Walker, 2010/07/12
- Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, 2010/07/14
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