June 3, 2026 at 8:46 AM, "Sergey Bugaev" <[email protected] mailto:[email protected]?to=%22Sergey%20Bugaev%22%20%3Cbugaevc%40gmail.com%3E > wrote:
> > 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. sourcehut may be another option as well. It's only $48 / year or so. I currently have an account there, so I'd be happy to mirror the hurd git accounts there, if there's interest in trying out sourcehut. https://sourcehut.org/ > 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 >
