Re: hurd-l4 VM server

[Maurizio Boriani]

>>>>> "Farid" == Farid Hajji <address@hidden> writes:

    Farid> Which codebase of uvm are you using?  NetBSD-CURRENT,
    Farid> OpenBSD-CURRENT or (old) OSKit?

NetBSD-CURRENT 

    >> * I'm starting with main writing in order to start it
    >> user-space

    Farid> Even if your pmap.c for L4 (X.0/X.2) were not yet ready,
    Farid> you could always use dummy routines, which operate on a big
    Farid> chunk of vm_map()ed (or even malloc()ed) memory, so you
    Farid> could test your user-space implementation in a more
    Farid> convenient POSIX environment than on bare L4 ;)

true

    >> * I'm thinking (and this is my question) which interface VM
    >> server should have in order to be contacted and used from other
    >> HURD (and others) servers. Should I "simply" code an IDL
    >> interface mapping it 1-1 with uvm_extern.h or you can suggest
    >> something better?

    Farid> Seriously though, all that is needed for the Hurd is right
    Farid> now Mach's VM interface. It _may_ be possible to write some
    Farid> glue code that relies only on a (quite limited) subset of
    Farid> uvm_extern.h to implement the [mach_]vm_*() functions.  But
    Farid> if it is not too time consuming, a 1:1 IDL interface to
    Farid> uvm_extern.h would be convenient anyway...

I really don't know, I'm a little bit confused... I'll try make a plan 
(table) with matching calls from mach and uvm and see what's are main 
different and equality. 

    >> Thanks, baux

bye

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