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<jean-christophe>hello
<jean-christophe>how are you ?
<jean-christophe>my coffee is too hot
<jean-christophe>how are the gentoo/hurd project ?
<jean-christophe>they need help
<jean-christophe>use variable it's the power of gentoo
<jean-christophe>it's only gentoo and it's so powerfull
<jean-christophe>my mug it's empty
<jean-christophe>i love it, it's just 500ml
<jean-christophe>need drink
<jean-christophe>ok... so much people do her job
<jean-christophe>i say connected
<jean-christophe>and lurks
<jean-christophe>Fri Jul 3 02:18:10 PM CEST 2026
<jean-christophe>were can past my think about hurd and mach ?
<jean-christophe>have a wiki ?
<jean-christophe>is it in french but AI can translate
<Darelelve>jean-christophe: You can find some information here: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/doc/hurd_toc.html
<jean-christophe>gnu.org is slow... for me may be intellegience under AI
<jean-christophe>s/AI/router
<jean-christophe>i come france maybe an relay form from france
<jean-christophe>-form
<jean-christophe>The connection has timed out
<jean-christophe>sh*t
<jean-christophe>gnu.org is filered
<jean-christophe>may be another day
<damo22>(XEN) Freed 724kB init memory
<damo22>GNU Mach 1.8
<damo22>Running on xen-3.0-x86_32p.
<damo22>panic ../i386/i386at/model_dep.c:539: c_boot_entry: Mach can't run as dom0.
<ahoka>jean-christophe, are you French?
<jean-christophe>yes
<ahoka>I thought so, I figured I recognized you from another IRC.
<jean-christophe>wich IRC ?
<jean-christophe>i know, isn`t possible lying, all people have a language signature
<ahoka>Well, regardless, hope you're doing ok
<jean-christophe>i am Okey the life is beautyfull... juste choice light or dark... but you certainly know the story of two wolf
<jean-christophe>the real story...
<ahoka>I know that as much as I love to idle and chit chat on IRC, I need to get back to focusing on my project. Perhaps we can talk more later. By the way, if you haven't tested out some of Hurd's unique features, I request you do, the more people who see the cool stuff within Hurd, the more attention and support the project will get. I am grateful for all the Hurd developers out there, even if I primarily use GNU/Linux
<jean-christophe>me too, i'm waiting hurd is useable... if i time i retry an qemu install
<jean-christophe>i would like port on riscv but need to dive under de GNU Mac doc and waiting my glass
<jean-christophe>may be an e-reader to study correctly
<jean-christophe>but i think i don't buy an kindle
<jean-christophe>if you have suggestion, with color
<jean-christophe>i have lot of pdf book but in computer is too attempt to chat or use keyboard... may be in park to take the sun and think slowy
<jean-christophe>with the time... the pdf is the best for read. and .cbs to BD, .epub for long story
<damo22>read source code in your favourite editor with syntax highlighting
<jean-christophe>sure source code is a beautyfull langage but need concept and architecture
<jean-christophe>may be some time i speak code as i speak french
<jean-christophe>i read an undestand, but write for zero need pratice
<jean-christophe>as FSF is in the true for all people access to the code
<jean-christophe>but money need money... i am impatient to test ggml under debina unstable
<jean-christophe>but need take a choice with my budget as pref/price and my twice D300 seems not work with the last update
<jean-christophe>may me for my futur server... under after under
<jean-christophe>euro after euro or dollar after dollar en bitcoin after bitcoin
<jean-christophe>and*
<jean-christophe>satochi was don't think her creating become the world crazy
<jean-christophe>or his i don't remeber the correct use
<jean-christophe>i'm hungry... and with solar glass isn't good think to try to code
<gnucode>hello friends!
<solid_black>hey gnucode!
<sneek>solid_black, you have 2 messages!
<sneek>solid_black, azert says: about the hardware improvement you mentioned such as remote atomic operations, I think that the most advanced NVIDIA data center network interface already implement them
<sneek>solid_black, azert says: and all bypasses the kernel as well as the main cpu, since userspace normally talk with those nic directly using command queues
<gnucode>solid_black: I think you talking about the "new MIG style structs" is my first introduction to the fact that flavio added an extention to Mach's IPC. I'm not sure if I explained that properly. But whatever that newer Mach message ya'll are using...seems interesting. and I'm not sure how I've missed it...
<solid_black>it's not actually a new message/IPC feature, it's a MIG feature
<solid_black>a new syntax, while the underlying format is the same
<solid_black>it's structs that look more like C, with individual named fields
<solid_black>whereas classic/old-style structs are more like arrays
<solid_black>in either case the underlying format, and what Mach IPC sees, is something like "4 32-bit integers"
<gnucode>hmmm. I wonder why I've never covered this newer MiG feature is a qoth...maybe it was during the bit that I gave up writing the qoth.
<solid_black>onto something else, have you tried to get 9pfs working? :D
<jean-christophe>sorry but MIG is another µkenerl ?
<jean-christophe>µkernel*
<solid_black>MIG is Mach Interface Generator
<jean-christophe>oh great
<solid_black>it's our RPC generator, reads IDL (*.defs), outputs C stubs
<jean-christophe>acronyne of RPC ?
<azeem>remote procedure call, the usual one
<jean-christophe>ok thank
<jean-christophe>hurd it's so beautyfull the long long way of thinking
<jean-christophe>thank to linus to give Linux... GNU can't have this mature working without
<jean-christophe>havn't*
<jean-christophe>couldn't this mature working...
<gnucode>solid_black: I have not tried 9pfs yet, but I intend to! Gotta get to work! I'll log back in in about an hour or so!
<solid_black>see ya
<jean-christophe>sorry for so connection, i test my config
<gnucode>hello again friends!
<azul_>hello
<Gooberpatrol66>hi
<gnucode>well, the hurd locked up on me...
<gnucode>X just got stuck or something, and I had to hard re-boot.
<gnucode>it happened whilst I was updating the Hurd.
<gnucode>I've noticed that the Hurd updates super well on the console, but not as reliably in X.
<solid_black>X on GNU/Hurd is anything but reliable
<gnucode>hahaha!
<gnucode>solid_black: nexussfan was working porting Xlibre. I'd love to test weather it is more reliable.
<gnucode>or someone could turn into developer-hercules and finish your wayland porting work.
<solid_black>the issue would be not as much Wayland the protocol & the libraries, as it is accessing display/video hardware
<solid_black>someone needs to port DRM
<gnucode>if we had to hire a competent developer to do this...how much do you suppose they would charge ?
<solid_black>change is sort of a wrong word
<solid_black>they would import DRM code/drivers from either Linux, or... whatever are the other options? the BSDs are taking it from Linux too, no idea about rump
<gnucode>not change ... charge $$$.
<gnucode>Suppose someone were to hire you to do this...how much would you charge ? For instance I think Drew Devault's hourly rate is more than $100 per hours. How many hours do you suppose it would take Drew to do this.
<solid_black>ah, sorry, misread
<solid_black>i'm the wrong person to do this anyway, I don't know much about DRM or graphics hardware
<solid_black>IDK if Drew knows much about that either, but probably a bunch more than I do
<jean-christophe>--> be back <--
<jean-christophe>have no channel for debian-hurd ?
<gnucode>debian-hurd ... is #hurd
<sam_>no, there is a separate Hurd channel on OFTC (#debian-hurd)
<sam_>i think it's more intended for debian development-ish questions though
<jean-christophe>ok i join on oftc
<sam_>i wasn't saying that :p
<sam_>this channel is fine for user support questions
<gnucode>sam_: is there some gentoo related news that we should add to the Q2 qoth ?
<sam_>well, the fact it exists
<sam_>it just missed the first qoth
<sam_>nothing specific otherwise to report
<gnucode>well there is a news article about it... on the news page...
<sam_>I figured you'd want to include everything since the last qoth, especially as you'd alluded to it in the last one, but if you don't want to, it's fine with me
<gnucode>sam_: I'm fine to add more to it. Here's the news article that I covered.
<gnucode> http://hurd.ion.nu/news/2026-04-01-gentoo_gnu_hurd.html
<gnucode>well actually samuel wrote that. is there more info that should be covered about gentoo hurd ?
<sam_>not really, no. i was under the impression it's a roundup of everything. if it excludes stuff that got covered otherwise then it's fine
<gnucode>this is how I typically write a qoth: http://hurd.ion.nu/community/weblogs/ArneBab/how-i-write-a-qoth.html
<gnucode>Does gentoo hurd have a mailing list that I should read when I write the qoth ?
<sam_>I usually just write updates into the #gentoo-hurd IRC channel at the moment
<sam_>I will let you know of any updates if you miss any in future, anyway
<sam_>I was just misunderstanding what the qoth contains
<gnucode>please don't think that I'm trying to dismiss you. It's just hard for me to read through the irc notes to see updates.
<gnucode>feel free to occassionally post your updates to bug-hurd@gnu.org. That way, it'll be easy for me to add it to the qoth.