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From: Robert W. <rj...@du...> - 2007-04-03 23:51:02
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Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Dave MacLachlan wrote: > >> Greg Parker contacted me, and it sounds like he's far farther along. >> I'm not going to bother going any further until I see how far he's >> gotten. > > It's crazy to have three people working independently on this. It's also > crazy to have people willing to help but not able to because they're waiting > on others. > > Greg: if we created a darwin/x86 branch for you today, what would be the > obstacles in committing what you have? In particular, what changes to the > core would be necessary? I recall a problem about the syscall wrappers > assuming arguments are in registers. Was there anything else? (Havin asked > that, changes to the core would be fine on a branch -- we could figure out > general mechanisms later before merging with the trunk.) I've been doing syscalls by skipping sysenter, which I haven't had time to figure out yet, and jumping straight to int 81. BTW: I've been doing all this in a regular repo keeping it synced up with the valgrind trunk. I must pull out my current diffs, tear it apart and see what I've done up to now. Regards, Robert. |