Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 15:19:32 -0500 From: Troy Benjegerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have two questions: Has anyone tried building hurd on top of either the MkLinux osfMach kernel, or the Mach kernel in Darwin on a PowerMac? I have done some work to make the Hurd running on top of OSF Mach on the ix86. I didn't have the time to finish it yet. There are some differences between OSF Mach and GNU Mach, but I think it might be possible to port the Hurd to OSF Mach on the PowerPC with some effert. The Mach kernel in Darwin is based on Mach 2.5, which is pretty old and probably lacks a lot of functionality that the Hurd depends on. And second, is there any working SMP support in HURD? The Hurd itself is almost entirely multithreaded. However, the SMP support in GNU Mach is not working at the moment. I'm not aware that any of the developers owns a SMP machine, so I don't think there will be working SMP support in the near future. If the SMP support in OSF Mach is in a better shape, the Hurd would probably be able to take advantage of it. Mark
