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

[Chris L. <sa...@no...>]

If it helps, I have already written a "hostfs" filesystem that should work
with UML with very little modification... the only catch is that I'm
waiting on my employer to allow me to release it (which they have said
they will, just paperwork stuff)...  I'll see if I can reaccellerate this
processes...

-Chris

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Jeff Dike wrote:

> 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
> 
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