Re: Helping with GNU Hurd development

[Pavel Kacer]

On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 22:26 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Pavel Kačer, le Mon 11 Apr 2011 23:00:11 +0200, a écrit :
> > I am a tester and c and Java developer and I would like to see Hurd
> > become usable GNU kernel. I saw a "help needed" add for the Hurd package
> > and I would like to be somehow useful.
> > Though I am not a kernel developer I am a skilful programmer and I think
> > I might get into it quickly. My problem is I do not have much time now.
> > But I will have more time later (two or three months perhaps). So maybe
> > to start with something close to the add (see below) - not very time
> > consuming - to get some idea about the stuff?
> > 
> > Here is the link of the help proposal:
> > http://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewjob.php?group_id=30&job_id=462
> 
> Like Thomas, I don't think it's particularly small.
> 
> What can be small and immediately useful, however, is porting
> console-setup to the Mach console, I've posted the following on
> debian-hurd some time ago:
> 
> “If somebody has time to spend on a small and not-too-hard project,
> it would be useful to add gnumach keymap support to console-setup.
> It should be mostly a matter of translating the console-setup keyboard
> format into the struct kbentry format (from gnumach's kd.h, see kd.c's
> key_map array for the default value), opening the kd device (see
> pc_kbd_start in hurd/console-client/pc-kbd.c for an example that opens
> kbd, simply replace kbd with kd), and call device_set_status(dev,
> KDSKBENT, &entry, 2) for each key map definition.
> 
> Note: use the kd.h and kd.c from the git repository, I've cleaned them a
> bit.”
> 
> Samuel

Thanks to Samuel for reply.

This is the first mail I have received. Previously I forgot to subscribe
to bug-hurd@gnu.org list. I've done right now.

OK, I'll see what I can do.

Pavel