On 3/26/09, David Leimbach <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/3/26 Zhao Shuai <[email protected]>
>
>>
>> >Does creative masoshism count as GSoC project? I dont know :)
>> >
>> >Hm... These points all belong to the big topic, getting modern linux
>> >distro binaries (NTPL stuff) to work. This would be a good thing
>> >because I'm stuck on some old debian sarge that was just moved to the
>> >archives.
>> >
>> >Step one would be to get the simple single-threaded stuff to run like
>> >echo and cat. The part point here is TLS. I had a somewhat working
>> >plan9 driver for it but never packaged it up because i wanted the
>> >whole thing working before submitting a kernel patch. You may later
>> >progress to multithreaded apps wich use futex syscall.
>> >
>> >The way I work on linuxemu is randomly trying stuff out, see where it
>> >crashes... try to understand why it crashes... implement/fix
>> >syscalls and try again. Sometimes it easy and sometimes you scratch
>> >your head for a several months. Its hard to estimate the time needed
>> >to get X running because you never know what crazy optimization shit
>> >the linux/libc guys come up with next to make you suffer.
>> >
>> >Here is always a huge risk of failure in linuxemu because all the
>> >details are in Ulrich Dreppers head only or encrypted with
>> >c-preprocessor-ifdef-encryption in the glibc-code so getting help is
>> >very hard and most of the stuff you have to find out yourself (this
>> >may cause brain damage over time).
>> >
>> >I cant (officialy) mentor you as I'm short of time and have no
>> >scientific background or something, but I will try to give you all
>> >infeormation/code and support I have... Its good to hear that someone
>> >starts taking over some work! :) Just drop me an email. I may be
>> >in irc from time to time too but dont count on it.
>> >
>> >--
>> >cinap
>>
>>
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>>
>> If nothing else in linuxemu can make a GSoc project, I would like to give
>> NTPL a try.
>>
>> Is NTPL the same thing as NPTL, and everyone is just repeatedly spelling
> their acronyms incorrectly?
>
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>
>>
>> Now I wonder how does Linuxemu work? I guess it parses the linux binary
>> and whenever
>> encounter a system call, emulate using Plan 9's function. I haven't dig
>> into the source
>> code, just guess.
>>
>>
>>
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