On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 1:22 PM Paulo Duarte <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sergey,

Hello,

> I went a bit silent as I am finishing up setting a sane cross compilation 
> environment that
> will allow me to continue my experiments in a better way.

How much have you been able to achieve / figure out here? Do you need
help/guidance?

While you can likely compile simple Mach userland binaries with
something generic (perhaps even distro-porivded Clang with some
AArch64 -target), for more serious glibc and Hurd work you want a full
aarch64-gnu cross-toolchain. Are you familiar with the process for
setting up such a cross environment, navigating all the circular
dependencies between mig, gcc, gnumach, glibc, hurd?

> But I was thinking for now, in a
> ew days, to raise a couple of pull request to your branch in GitHub repo 
> wip-aarch64
> branche.

I don't think moving discussions over to Microsoft GitHub is a good
idea, especially given what they've been up to lately and the
resulting exodus of high-profile free software projects [0][1][2].

[0]: https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/
[1]: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github
[2]: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/

Generally, there likely isn't much disagreement on the fact that plain
text mailing lists are not a very modern or straightforward workflow
:) I would likely be in favor of moving Hurd development to some
independent Forgejo instance, for example, if that was on the table.
But since (until) we haven't done something like that, this list (and
the IRC channel) is where the development happens, in the open. We
have a community here; this thread has already attracted the attention
of Jessica and Luca, beside Samuel and myself whom you explicitly
cc'ed.

So I suggest you both host a publicly-accessible Git repo (on GitHub
or wherever you prefer) with the latest revision of your work, and
post patches (against the rebased version of my branch) to this list,
where we will discuss and review it, in public, as a community.

> To add the couple of real bug fixes we found on these patches I sent, and
> hopefully a PL011 working driver.

Cool, have you made progress on that?

Sergey

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