Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 09:40:47 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, toor@dyson.iquest.net, imp@village.org, platforms@FreeBSD.org, dyson@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/MIPS anybody Message-ID: <199611301740.JAA19857@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199611301539.KAA10646@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Nov 30, 96 10:39:45 am"
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> > > > Of course, if I'm wrong and it's actually totally trivial, then I'll > > just go sit in the corner and cry 8) Any chance of a pmap(9) manpage > > detailing its features and requirements? 8) > > > PS, I FULLY intend to document the VM system. The more noise that > is made about it, the higher priority it becomes. I am sure that > if everyone said: I don't care about LFS for now, etc -- then I would be > very willing to do the docs... Frankly, I am not in a programming > mood right now, so it might not be a bad thing. > > Perhaps if DG and I produced more docs, then we could get more > parallel efforts going. Actually, there are other kernel hackers > that appear to be coming up to speed quite nicely (which is really > a wonderful thing.) Maybe we can get the ball rolling!!! Have you ever tried to go buy a good book on VM system design? I seem to remeber a day when David and myself where down at Powell technical book store and he purchased one of the OSF manuals just because it had a whole chapter on the VM system. IMHO, a ``book'' written by one of the technical staff of O'Reiley with John Dyson and David Greenman as the technical contributors would fill a VERY LARGE void on many a persons technical library shelf/book case/ library! I book sounds like a daunting task, but books often get created from smaller documentation processes, and if we can get you two to write us 10 pages on the pmap code, perhaps a technical writter can be recruited someplace to grow this start into something larger. Even a 10 page paper would be well recieved at many of the technical conferences, though I am not sure how you feel about doing paper presentations :-). Just my $0.05 worth... you can hit delete now :-) -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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