Re: About Gsoc 2014

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 05:46:17PM +0000, Manolis Ragkousis wrote:
>> With less than 12 hours for GNU to submit ideas for this year's Gsoc, I am
>> wondering if porting guix to hurd and creating a guix hurd system, which I am
>> currently working on, is worthy for a Gsoc idea. I am an eligible student, so
>> that could be great!
>
> The goal is definitely interesting. However, I am not sure what there is
> to do now except for packaging the hurd. As long as we do not have a running
> system, what do we do with the kernel? Or would there be enough interesting
> work in creating a hurd qemu image?

The things to do would be packaging Mach/Hurd/MiG/libc, adjusting
cross-base.scm to allow cross-compilation to GNU/Hurd,
cross-bootstrapping, adjusting ‘glibc’ in base.scm, and then working
towards a GNU VM image (or non VM) based on (gnu system) stuff.

I think it’s OK as a GSoC project.

Ludo’.