On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Antti Kantee <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/11/14 16:31, Justin Cormack wrote: >> >> I have updated my repo that builds librumpuser (ie posix userspace) to >> latest netbsd current, including the configure script. >> >> https://github.com/justincormack/librumpuser-standalone.git >> >> The point of this repo is if you want to experiment with stuff while >> keeping it under git version control, and without checking out an >> entire netbsd tree. > > > Thanks. Though, I'm not sure any of those reasons really hold water, at > least unless you make it easy to use the alternative one in conjunction with > buildrump.sh.
The idea is you just change the librumpuser code, and then upstream it to NetBSD or discard the experiment... at least you get a useful set of patches. > I'd call it rumpuser-posix, for consistent naming. Not sure I can be bothered to rename it - the idea is you fork it to whatever you want to work on, it is not supposed to be of use in itself. > Also, I'm sort of fifty-sixty with just hosting the whole thing under > repo.rumpkernel.org and importing it into src/external in NetBSD. > > The one notable thing standing in the way is that the I/O driver hypercalls > for POSIX platforms (RUMPCOMP_USER_SRCS) are still hosted only in the NetBSD > tree. We need some clever scheme(tm) there. I think I've almost hatched > such a scheme. More on that later when I've verified that I've managed to > fool also the build system and not just myself. ok. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ rumpkernel-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rumpkernel-users
