Re: [coLinux-devel] coLinux 0.5.4

[Evan D. <eda...@tj...>]

I might be willing to help with documentation.  I don't know all the
details, but I could certainly write up my experience as a start to a
comprehensive guide...

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Dan Aloni wrote:

> This release brings the context switching code of coLinux much closer to
> completeness. It's the most sensitive code in this project but the most
> important one.
>
> I'd like to thank Alejandro R. Sedeno for the quick but excellent
> pcap-based Bridged Ethernet contribution, and also others who
> helped to debug other stuff that led to this release.
>
> * Version 0.5.4 AKA "Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis" (%gs/%fs) release
>   * Fixed an issue with i686-optimized pthread and the preservation of
>     %gs and %fs. The crashes that were caused by the i686 Gentoo image
>     should now disappear.
>     WINE would also work now ;)
>   * cobd: Fixed accessing large block devices (1GB >). cobd0 was passing
>     wrong information to userspace.
>   * conet: Statistics are now gathered (patch by Pat Erley)
>   * Tuned the time conversion between Windows and Linux. The machine is
>     now initialized with the right date, not 4 days backwards.
>   * Applied a configuration parsing fix (patch by Ballard Jonathan)
>   * Some improvements of the switch code. We now preserve more
>     registers, (MMX/SSE/SSE2/FP), and coLinux now has its own GDT.
>     These changes should assure stability on more systems and processors.
>     This fix also appears to solve the problem where processes were
>     stuck on nanosleep() calls.
>   * conet-pcap: pcap-based daemon (contributed by Alejandro R. Sedeno).
>   * Network configuration is now handled in the coLinux configuration
>     XML.
>     For backward compatibility, add:
>     <network index="0" name="TAP" type="tap"></network>
>
>     If you want to use pcap (i.e, bridged Ethernet), add:
>     <network index="0" name="XXXX" type="bridged"></network>
>     (Where XXXX is a substring of your network adapter's name)
>
>     Optional attributes: mac="XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX" - specifies the MAC
>     address of the interface in the Linux side. Recommended on bridged
>     networking setups, where more than one Windows machine will be
>     running coLinux on the same subnet.
>
>     I also prepared the ground for supporting more than one network
>     device (i.e, eth1, eth2, etc.), but it is not yet completed.
>   * linux: avoid more I/O in time.c.
>
>
> A side note:
>
> For the non-developers and developers among you: would anyone like to
> update the doc/running file, and whatever documentation files you see
> fit?
>
> --
> Dan Aloni
> da...@gm...
>
>
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