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 _______________________________________________ HelenOS-devel mailing list HelenOS-devel@lists.modry.cz http://lists.modry.cz/listinfo/helenos-devel