Re: How do I learn the Hurd stuff?

[Joshua Branson]

Almudena Garcia <liberamenso10000@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all:
>
> I'm reading about you're interested in contributing with Hurd and practice 
> with C.
>
> I have an interesting project, about implement SMP support in Hurd. 
> Currently, Mach has a little support to multiprocessing, but this is old and 
> very buggy.
>
> A friend has said me that It's possible to implement SMP support via 
> hardware, instead use software techniques, and I would try this project.
>
> If any person can tutorize me and contribute, I will be grateful.
>

I can probably encourage you for this project, but I'm not sure if I'd
be able to help very well.  I'm still on the struggle bus with the Hurd
development.  I have a ever growing Hurd cheatsheet, but I am no CS
major.

Also how does one implement SMP via hardware and NOT software?  Is this
a portable approach to do SMP?  Will this approach allow SMP on Intel,
AMD, ARM, POWER, and RISC chips?

Honestly, I could probably just spend some time trying to update the
Hurd wiki.  A lot of places just need some documentation updates.  Like
a lot. hahaha.