> > I'm currently hacking on some modifications and enhancements of Utah's
> > Mach4 which are not yet ready for public.
> Can you speak about the nature of the modifications?
Mainly enabling/adding NORMA and Distributed Shared Memory (a.k.a. XMM),
so as to catch up with Milojicic PhD-Thesis (s. below) requirements as well
as a reimplementation of the migration module, which is still in very early
stage and not yet correctly working (I didn't try Milojicic's code, since
I didn't find it anywhere). An excellent and comprehensible description of
LD can be found in that thesis, which was published in:
Load Distribution: Implementation for the Mach Microkernel
Dejan S. Milojicic
Vieweg Advanced Studies in Computer Science
ISBN 3-528-05424-7, 1993 (sic!), 149 pages.
I'm not aware of an online version of this document (please correct me if
you've found it) or wether the book is still available. Milojicic's
PhD-Thesis was submitted at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany,
around 1992-1993 (Prof. Juergen Nehmer) and _parts_ of it were published
at the third Usenix Mach Symposium, April 1993, pp 273-290. The thesis
is IMHO highly recommended reading for all Mach and Hurd hackers.
> Well, Thomas Bushnell, BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is the one to talk to about
> Mach issues related to the Hurd.
Okay, I'll wait for the development to stabilize (on both sides ;-))...
> > I'm currently digging through the Hurd libs and trying to figure out,
> > how Hurd's interface to Mach exactly looks like. Are the sources the
> > only documentation now, or am I missing something?
> Well, there is a hurd info manual, but it mostly covers the Hurd libraries.
> You will find the interfaces in hurd/*.defs, and little else in the Hurd
> makes direct use of Mach features (grep is your friend :)
The *.defs were actually the first files I had a look at. Thanks.
Thank you.
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