From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QlNzw-0003sy-HX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:27:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA4E321C186; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:27:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bay0-omc2-s7.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc2-s7.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.190.82]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B92B21C186 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:27:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from SN2PRD0202HT012.namprd02.prod.outlook.com ([65.54.190.125]) by bay0-omc2-s7.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:27:06 -0700 Received: from SN2PRD0202MB141.namprd02.prod.outlook.com ([169.254.11.235]) by SN2PRD0202HT012.namprd02.prod.outlook.com ([10.27.51.106]) with mapi id 14.01.0225.056; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:27:06 +0000 From: "Seaton, Robert" To: "gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org" Subject: [gentoo-soc] Plan 9 From Gentoo: Weekly Progress Report #9 Thread-Topic: Plan 9 From Gentoo: Weekly Progress Report #9 Thread-Index: AcxK5KTjQq0DgFbWRSOJowFstzb/4A== Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:27:05 +0000 Message-ID: <2F0F7F89A74A7F4AA58220381FD93DDD104DAE25@SN2PRD0202MB141.namprd02.prod.outlook.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [24.14.243.183] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginatorOrg: dupage.edu X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Jul 2011 16:27:06.0499 (UTC) FILETIME=[B1A20D30:01CC4AE7] X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 82c09ee64864d0314013ca9da5593014 Hi, all. Plan 9 From Gentoo is a 2010 GSoC project to overlay a Plan 9 inspired user= space on top of a Gentoo base system in the form of a liveCD. Project page: http://soc.dev.gentoo.org/~rps/plan9/ LiveCD image: http://soc.dev.gentoo.org/~rps/plan9-download/plan9-from-gent= oo-x86-minimal.iso This week I: * Got Portage working on the liveCD image. * Worked on porting the Glendix patches to a newer kernel. I'm blocked on t= his until Anant gets back to me regarding an issue I'm running up against w= ith the do_filp_open() function. * Set up a project page for Plan 9 From Gentoo. * Generated a -BETA release of Plan 9 From Gentoo. * Uploaded the -BETA image and stage3 tarball to the soc servers, where eve= ryone can now test it out. :) For the upcoming week, I'm going to contact gregkh about the possibility of= seeing some of the Plan 9 patches upstreamed. I'm also going to send a mes= sage to both Rich and EBo, who expressed interest in trying out Plan 9 From= Gentoo, informing them that the liveCD images are available for download. = I intend to send these emails out after I've finished this progress report. I'm also going to work on fleshing out the project page. At the very least,= I definitely want to add some screenshots of Plan 9 From Gentoo in action = to the page so that interested users can get a taste of Plan 9 From Gentoo = without downloading it. I have ideas for a couple of other pages, like an F= AQ or maybe a tutorial on remastering Plan 9 From Gentoo. These aren't a hu= ge priority, just nice-to-haves. I may or may not work on them, depending o= n how much time I end up working on the Glendix patches. My final goals for this week are 1) get the Glendix patches forward ported = to 2.6.39.2 and 2) port at least one syscall from Plan 9 to Linux. So far, = Glendix has 10 of 51 syscalls ported from Plan 9 to Gentoo/Linux. I'm confi= dent that porting the first syscall will be the most difficult, so I really= want to start working on porting at least one this week. I think after I g= et one working, it will be easier to port the others and I can really get r= olling on this phase of the project. Right now, also, most of my work has b= een writing ebuilds which, while useful, would probably not be very impress= ive code samples to submit to Google along with my final evaluation. Some k= ernel hacking would be much more interesting.=20 Cheers, rps=