Re: Reinventing the Hurd server bootstrap

[Justus Winter]

Quoting Richard Braun (2014-12-26 17:10:19)
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 01:58:28PM +0100, Justus Winter wrote:
> > It requires only tiny tweaks to libdiskfs, and a tiny patch to gnumach
> > that enables us to load non-elf files into tasks.
> 
> What kind of non-elf files ?

Any file.  I created this patch in an attempt to use a dead task
(i.e. a task w/o a thread) as a ramdisk.  Now I'm (ab)using this patch
to load the script that my interpreter runs:

[...]
multiboot /boot/gnumach.gz
module /boot/bootshell bootshell \
'${host-port}' \
'${device-port}' \
'${bootscript-task}' \
'${hello-task}' \
'${rootfs-task}' \
'$(task-create)' \
'$(task-resume)'

module /boot/runsystem.scm runsystem.scm \
'$(bootscript-task=task-create)'
[...]

Justus