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Re: The Hurd: what is it?


From: Sergio Lopez
Subject: Re: The Hurd: what is it?
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:15:30 +0100

El mié, 09-11-2005 a las 09:05 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann escribió:
> At Wed, 09 Nov 2005 04:45:32 +0100,
> Sergio Lopez <koro@sinrega.org> wrote:
> > 
> > El mié, 09-11-2005 a las 02:00 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann escribió:
> > > Of course, I don't speak for Roland or Thomas.  But as far as I know,
> > > the direction of the Hurd has not changed at all.  The Hurd-on-L4
> > > efforts are an evaluation of a new design.  Until such a design
> > > emerges as a viable alternative, there is nothing to decide.
> > 
> > That's the point. Until that evaluation reaches something concrete and
> > _feasible_, I don't see the need to stop Mach/Hurd development, IMHO
> > both projects can work and follow its own way.
> 
> I fully agree with that.
> 
> > In fact, I would like to
> > encourage all people to restart working ("working" means coding, but
> > also testing and discussing about design issues) again on GNU Mach/GNU
> > Hurd to make the final effort that it needs to become a production
> > system (the GNU System).
> 
> I have a problem with such a strong statement.  The implicit promise
> you make is that there is some certain amount of work that needs to be
> done, the "final effort", to make the GNU Hurd on Mach a production
> system.  I have a lot of elaborative technical arguments why I think
> that the story is not so simple.  This is however not the place to
> present them.  Instead, it should suffice for me to say the following:
> I have promised to people before that there is just a relatively small
> effort necessary to make the GNU/Hurd on Mach become a production
> system.  I have broken this promise by failing to show how this can be
> done, and likely disappointed a lot of people.  This past experience
> of mine may or may not make you careful about what can be achieved
> with how much effort.
> 

I've searched many times through the mailing lists, and I didn't found
a complete and rational discussion about the design issues of Mach/Hurd.
Perhaps could be a good idea to start such discussion now, probably
both l4-hurd and hurd will get benefit from this.

If you feel like this is not the right time for that, could you please
point me to that technical documentation? (That would be very helpful
for me :-)

Thanks!
-- 
Sergio Lopez
koro@sinrega.org





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