Re: maintenance

2016-10-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Antti Kantee writes ("maintenance"): > I am currently not in a situation in which I will maintain the rump > kernel core in my spare time. In practice, anyone interested in the > latest security/bug fixes and features should help themselves (and > preferably others too). That said, I would ass

Re: maintenance

2016-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Igor Galić writes ("Re: maintenance"): > 🙋 Hi. Antti invited me to join the project. I wrote: > > I'm happy to step up if it would help. (I can't promise to > > necessarily get everything right, but I can promise to be receptive to > > corrections...) So, in the spirit of doing and being corr

Re: Final call: app-tools toolchain naming / arch tuple selection

2015-05-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Krishna writes ("Re: Final call: app-tools toolchain naming / arch tuple selection"): > How about not having a term for baremetal? Just rumprun. That way, rumprun > {posix, xen} appear as extension/specialization of the common case, baremetal. I think this is a bad idea. It will happen that som

Re: Final call: app-tools toolchain naming / arch tuple selection

2015-05-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Antti Kantee writes ("Re: Final call: app-tools toolchain naming / arch tuple selection"): > There were two ongoing discussions: > > 1) should the tuple contain the platform at all Yes, it must. > 2) can we think of a better platform name for "baremetal" > > If the answer to "1" is "yes", then

Toolchain directory structure changes (was Re: destdir support for Rumprun)

2015-10-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Lucina writes ("Toolchain directory structure changes (was Re: destdir support for Rumprun)"): > Regarding 3), this is a **hard** and distribution-specific problem to get > right. (Ian: feel free to point at Debian threads about how long multiarch > took to get sorted.) I don't think we hav