[EROS-Arch] Conversion to C

Wed, 28 Mar 2001 00:43:35 +0200

Hi.

How are the kmalloc part getting along?
How is the conversion process scheduled?

Jørgen H. Fjeld

torsdag 11. januar 2001, 12:04, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
 > .....
 > 4. The lynchpin to the entire conversion is the conversion of the
 > Process/Node/Key structures. The rest will convert very easily. However,
 > there is a small change in support of future SMP kernels that we should
 > do first, because this change will cause us to revise parts of the
 > kernel logic throughout that will make the conversion to C easier by
 > reducing the dependency on the 'this' pointer in the current process
 > implementation. More on this in my next mail.
 >
 > The end result of all this is that I think we should proceed with
 > kmalloc, introducing the 'invoker' pointer, and some minor interrupt
 > management changes before proceeding with the bulk of the C conversion.
 >
 >
 > Jonathan
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