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On 11:22 Sun 10 Jul , Robert Seaton wrote: |
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> For the rest of the week, I focused on adding the finishing touches to |
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> Plan 9 From Gentoo. It's now in a fairly usable state, the only |
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> remaining thing to be done is to get Portage up and running on the |
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> liveCD, as that was a feature mentioned by someone during my original |
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> proposal and something that I assume the community would be interested |
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> in having. I now have an introductory message on startup that |
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> introduces new users to some of the userspace paradigms introduced by |
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> Plan 9 (i.e. actually "drawing" a window on the screen) and, further, |
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> the message points them to a number of resources where they can learn |
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> more about the components shipped by Plan 9 From Gentoo. |
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Nice work, Robert. |
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> After this was accomplished, I began porting the Glendix patches to |
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> the latest git kernel. I have everything in a build-able state, but it |
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> still needs to be tested. In hindsight, I should have ported my |
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> patches to the latest Gentoo kernel instead of the git release, as the |
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> git kernels use a different style of ebuild and, which I found out in |
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> testing a newly generated liveCD image with a git kernel, fail to |
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> build correctly with Catalyst. Tomorrow, I will rebase my rebased |
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> patches to a different release kernel (2.6.39.2 probably). Hopefully, |
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> the patches will not exhibit any run time failures and I will be |
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> sitting pretty. Rebasing the patches should not take long, but -- |
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> should there be run time failures -- debugging may take a day or two. |
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Might be an easier backport if you make a local |
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vanilla-sources-3.0-rc7.ebuild. |
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> Once Glendix has been forward ported to a more recent kernel, I will |
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> begin porting more syscalls from Plan 9 to the Linux kernel with the |
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> goal of getting the native Plan 9 version of the sam editor running on |
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> top of the Linux kernel and shipping with Plan 9 From Gentoo. I am |
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> still waiting for Anant to get back to me with some more information |
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> on porting the syscalls and how to move forward. |
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The idea here is to get all the native p9 apps running under a Linux kernel? |
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What's your plan for getting patches upstreamed? We do have a few kernel |
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devs, so I recommend getting in touch with some of them to work on |
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integrating things into Linus's tree. |
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> If he has still not gotten back to me by the time I am ready to begin |
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> work, I will once again poke Robin about setting up a project page for |
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> Plan 9 From Gentoo |
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Seems like something that might make sense in |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/ — do you agree? |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Admin, Summer of Code |
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Gentoo Linux and X.Org |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.com |
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