What: 91st HelenOS project meeting
When: May 12, 2016, 19:00
Where: Zubajda pub in Prague
Who: VH, JJ, MD, JS
Scribe: JJ

Round table:

VH:
  - was looking at some of the JM's harbours (port of QEMU)
  - told us about the new CI page for the second time:
    http://helenos.alisma.cz/ci/
  - has been already only ten minutes from fixing #619

JJ:
  - worked on the helenos.org web, pretty much satisfied with the
    current state
  - edited documentation, User's Guide
  - removed open-ended enhancement tickets from the next milestone
  - integrated two fixes from Manuele
  - finished conversion of .global symbols to macros from abi/asmtool.h
    on all architectures
  - got rid of the SYS_SET_TLS syscall entirely
    - treats %gs:0 / %fs:0 as a virtual register, preserved during
      context switches
    - TLS can be now set without going to the kernel
    - ~9% increase of tester ping_pong roundtrips per second on amd64
    - makes use of gcc switch -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs
    - unfortunately, clang does not support -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs
  - fixed smc_coherence() name conflict
  - modernize kernel C and asm sources by using designated initializers
    and getting rid of many numeric constants in favour of symbolic
    constants and autogenerated offsets
  - provide a means to specify make dependencies among autogenerated
    headers
  - upgraded to QEMU 2.6.0
  - PC/AT scancodes for Integrator/CP (QEMU 2.6.0 reverted previous
    change)

MD:
  - upgraded server that hosts helenos.org
  - upgraded Trac to Trac 1.0.1
  - fixed post-commit hook
  - created CI repository for VH's CI framework

JS:
  - dynamic linking improvements
  - TLS improvements


Other agenda:

- make sure to vote in the doodle for the HelenOS Camp 2016:
  http://doodle.com/poll/8y4t39ytxu8z8ayq

- consider idling in #helenos on IRC, otherwise having an IRC
  channel is debatable


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