2009/3/26 Zhao Shuai > > >Does creative masoshism count as GSoC project? I dont know :) > > > >Hm... These points all belong to the big topic, getting modern linux > >distro binaries (NTPL stuff) to work. This would be a good thing > >because I'm stuck on some old debian sarge that was just moved to the > >archives. > > > >Step one would be to get the simple single-threaded stuff to run like > >echo and cat. The part point here is TLS. I had a somewhat working > >plan9 driver for it but never packaged it up because i wanted the > >whole thing working before submitting a kernel patch. You may later > >progress to multithreaded apps wich use futex syscall. > > > >The way I work on linuxemu is randomly trying stuff out, see where it > >crashes... try to understand why it crashes... implement/fix > >syscalls and try again. Sometimes it easy and sometimes you scratch > >your head for a several months. Its hard to estimate the time needed > >to get X running because you never know what crazy optimization shit > >the linux/libc guys come up with next to make you suffer. > > > >Here is always a huge risk of failure in linuxemu because all the > >details are in Ulrich Dreppers head only or encrypted with > >c-preprocessor-ifdef-encryption in the glibc-code so getting help is > >very hard and most of the stuff you have to find out yourself (this > >may cause brain damage over time). > > > >I cant (officialy) mentor you as I'm short of time and have no > >scientific background or something, but I will try to give you all > >infeormation/code and support I have... Its good to hear that someone > >starts taking over some work! :) Just drop me an email. I may be > >in irc from time to time too but dont count on it. > > > >-- > >cinap > > > > If nothing else in linuxemu can make a GSoc project, I would like to give NTPL a try. > > Is NTPL the same thing as NPTL, and everyone is just repeatedly spelling their acronyms incorrectly? > > Now I wonder how does Linuxemu work? I guess it parses the linux binary and whenever > encounter a system call, emulate using Plan 9's function. I haven't dig into the source > code, just guess. > > > > ------------------------------ > 网易邮箱，中国第一大电子邮件服务商