Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of The GNU HURD on Alpha

[Jeroen Dekkers]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:27:24PM +0200, Loic Dachary wrote:

>       Hi,
>
>       That may be a silly question but : did you coordinate with the 
>hurd people ? Maybe they can grant you access to their CVS tree for this
>purpose ? I'm not trying to say that it is required, I would just like
>to make sure this solution was not overlooked.

The problem is that we can't give fine grained CVS access.

> > Andrew M. Miklic <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> > License: gpl

A lot of code in gnumach isn't under the GPL, all new code should be
licensed under the GPL however.

> > Other License: 
> > Package: The GNU HURD on Alpha
> > System name: hurd-alpha

This is actually a wrong name, it should be gnumach-alpha and "gnumach
port to the alpha architecture". See below.

> > 2) If necessary, make any changes required to the HURD servers to support 
> > Alpha in specific and 64-bit processors in general.

I don't think much changes are necessary to the Hurd servers. If such
changes are necessary they will probably be small patches which should
be mailed to bug-hurd. I don't think it's necessary to start a new
project for this.

There are some changes needed to glibc however. Those changes are also
small and should just be mailed to bug-hurd if they are Hurd- or
Mach-specific or to bug-glibc if they are patches to the general glibc
code. I don't see why you've to create a specific project for this
either.

The only thing which need a lot of work is gnumach.

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 05:11:03PM +0200, Loic Dachary wrote:
> Andrew M. Miklic writes:
>  > I talked to them, but they were the ones that actually suggested that I 
> open
>  > a project on savannah.org...
> 
>       Ok then. Should I consider this part of the GNU project ? I mean
> HURD is part of the GNU project, this port is part of hurd and the 
> Savannah project is created only for convenience purposes. Am I right ?

I'm not sure about this. I haven't made my pthreads project a GNU
project because it's just temporary, the l4-hurd project isn't
either. For gnumach-alpha the code will be merged back if it's
feasible. If somebody wants to do active development gnumach it should
be made a seperate project, it's only in the Hurd project because
nobody else cares. I don't think the gnumach-alpha project should be a
GNU project, it's probably just temporary.

Jeroen Dekkers
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