Re: [User-mode-linux-devel] Help Wanted?

[Jeff D. <jd...@ka...>]

em...@mi... said:
> I'm interested in helping out with UML if it's needed or wanted.

Sure.  The more the merrier.

> What exactly is the status of SMP in UML now?

It's the victim of bitrot.  It's been allowed to atrophy.

> If SMP isn't in UML now, how should SMP be defined for it?

The only thing needed to support SMP is to make sure that the arch code is 
SMP-safe.  All of the other support is there.  I've put some #errors in where 
I know something is not SMP-safe.  It will fail to compile if you turn on SMP 
and try to build it.

So, those need fixing, and a scan through the rest of the arch code would need 
to be done and locking added as needed.

If you don't know what SMP-safety is, let me know, and I'll see how well I can 
explain it.

> Finally, I use to be fluent in broken French, so maybe I could work on
> translating the web site. 

That would be cool...

There are some other projects which would be interesting.  Near the top of the 
list is a 'hostfs' filesystem which provides access to the host filesystem.  
This would be a virtual filesystem which plugs into the VFS layer and converts 
vfs calls into their libc equivalents.

If you want more choices, let me know.  I can probably think of some...

				Jeff