Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:00:52 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finishing up the xen port - would funding help? Message-ID: <d763ac660908261600i39e95e49hcd0ed44caaf17e22@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A94CD0D.8070902@prgmr.com> References: <77abe410908211256g44dd20d8o9b50c20357e63a6b@mail.gmail.com> <m3d46okfbt.fsf@luke.xen.prgmr.com> <4A94CD0D.8070902@prgmr.com>
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Give me a few days to get stuff together here and I'll see what I can do in -head. Thanks for all your offers of support. adrian 2009/8/26 Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com>: > Luke S Crawford wrote: >> >> I could also scrape up some cash. (unfortunately, my own budget isn't as >> flush as it was a few months ago, >> when I tried to set one of my friends on the project.) > > That friend would be me (no relation). > > I'm afraid I didn't get very far at the time, in part because I had a lot of > trouble coming to grips with Xen, and because I had never done any FreeBSD > kernel programming before. > > I would be happy to continue with the work as a volunteer. I'd like to > actually contribute some real code so as to finally earn all the money Luke > paid me. > > I've been reading McKusick's book on The Design and Implementation of the > FreeBSD Operating System. It is very good; I expect I will be able to do > some meaningful kernel hacking once I finish reading it. > > I gave up on Xen entirely for a while, as I had intended to use it for a > project of my own but just couldn't get it to do what I need. But the Xen > kernel and Linux Dom0 continue to be actively developed, so I'm intending to > give it another try. > > I do have experience with kernel and driver programming on Mac OS X and with > embedded systems. I am also a wizard at debugging - I was once on a team at > Apple that specialized in fixing the most difficult bugs in the Classic Mac > OS. I have also done a lot of storage and FireWire work. > > I have a Core 2 Quad Xeon box that runs Fedora 11, as well as a Core 2 Duo > box that Luke lent me, that runs FreeBSD CURRENT. My intention for that box > has been to learn FreeBSD kernel hacking by fixing some of the existing bugs > on real hardware. That's just a step in the process of learning how to hack > FreeBSD's DomU support. > > Ever Faithful, > > Mike > -- > Michael David Crawford > mdc@prgmr.com > > prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. > > Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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