On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:31:11 -0800
Michael Wolfson <michael@nosflow.com> wrote:

> So, what would be involved in getting diskless working multiuser=20
> on a few machines?=20
I don't know. Last time I dealed with userland issus was Oct 31. I had
to fsck the build system at some points (MD pthread regression tests,
file lists, ...) to get a userland build. Once I got somthing I had to
notice that the dynamic linker is broken. The static binaries from
/rescue work. The hp700/hppa toolchain still has some bugs. (Compiling
on a 64 bit machine or with "-On" where n > 0 will trigger compiler
bugs.) But it is easy to work around this.

I don't have time to care about the toolchain and the userland. I have
to leave it up to other volunteers to take care of this topics. I
concentrate my time on kernel work as this is my main interrest.

> It'd be nice to get the autobuild mechanisms kicking in=20
Well, you are invited to beat the bugs out of the hp700 MD parts of the
source tree. Simply try to do a "build.sh -m hp700 release" and you will
see. You even don't need hp700 hardware. It would be a good start to
have "build.sh -m hp700 release" succeed, even when the resuling
binaries don't work. Getting the dynamic linker working would be the
next step.
--=20


tsch=FC=DF,
       Jochen

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