Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] hurd: Add expected abilist files for x86_64

[Samuel Thibault]

Sergey Bugaev, le mar. 02 mai 2023 19:34:02 +0300, a ecrit:
> On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 7:08 PM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Sergey Bugaev, le mar. 02 mai 2023 18:47:50 +0300, a ecrit:
> > > On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 6:20 PM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > What I'm really interested in doing is 'bootstrapfs'... which is kind
> > > of the same thing as the boot shell, but with a different focus.
> >
> > Not like hurd/boot?
> 
> You mean boot(1), which is at boot/ in the Hurd repo?

Yes: it's precisely doing "Super ideally, gnumach wouldn't even know how
to parse bootscripts and load ELFs; that, too, should be done by some
pre-init task". It can also be used for sub-hurds by supporting device
ports etc., but whatever can do a lot can also do a little.

Overall it's nice to have crazy ideas about making the boot flexible
and all that, but as it is now it does work, and we also need to have a
system that is relevant, i.e. that has some of the basic support that
people would expect, such as broad network/disk support, USB etc.

Samuel