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

[Emil O. <em...@mi...>]

Great, I'll get started on the SMP stuff, then.  I realized that I have an
easier option on the porting side, too.  I have regular access to Solaris
machines (SPARC), so I might be able to give porting a try there.
Hopefully it won't be too difficult (certainly not more than windows :)

Emil

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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