Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 02:55:38 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Bruce Allen <claudevms@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, claudevms@home.com Subject: Re: Ready to code... When can I start? Message-ID: <3B024E9A.57CB9C8D@elischer.org> References: <OE74SJqCn16Sic5rI8p000030e2@hotmail.com>
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> Bruce Allen wrote: > > Hi, > > Operating system internals are fun. I just wish I had more time - I'm married! > What can I work on? I once added context switching to PC-XINU for the math > co-processor. > I have programmed in assembly language and I know C. > > Has anyone looked at how VMS handles interrupts (HW and SW)? I have, but I'm > partial to VMS. > How about how VMS does threading? Or perhaps how VMS has asynchronous system > traps (ASTs) > for allowing the programmer to do asynchronous programming. NT stole ASTs from > VMS and > broke them. There's many ways to skin the cat - unless you are an animal > rights person. > I would love to see FreeBSD implement an interrptable kernel and support the > execution of application code > in kernel mode through a system call. The global lock approach I read about on > your site sounds > like how DOS serialized its I/O - yuk! Other OSes have good features that > FreeBSD could benefit from. > > The Lustre project is attempting to create a VMS-like distributed lock manager > for Linux. I am working on > doing the same thing for FreeBSD since I like the FreeBSD license agreement > better. I am also working on how > to make a share everything cluster work on FreeBSD. I'm still in the very > early stages. At one stage simon shapiro (shimon@shapiro.org I think) did a distributed lock manager.. > > What efforts need help? My current job is boring and I > miss the hell out of > software development - however it pays well! Pick anything that interests you, see who else is interested (mainling list archives and cvs logs) and start. get ino the -current and -hackers lists and enjoy yourself.. You don't need to be invited in.. > > > Thanks, > > Bruce > > -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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