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[Mark Blackman]

On 1 Feb 2012, at 14:01, Mark Blackman wrote:

> 
> On 31 Jan 2012, at 18:36, Andrew Bresticker wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> When the clock ran out Andrew was trying to debug some odd
>>> problem with the root file system image which was standing
>>> in the way of launching an init.
>> 
>> This is still an issue.  While tracking this down, I encountered a
>> separate VM-related bug where a non-page-aligned mapping was created and
>> then removed.  I think it might be related to the directory entry
>> corruption that I observed, but I'm not completely sure yet.
> 
> Thanks, I guess it sounds like you might still be putting a bit of 
> time into it. I guess you've got a Quanta server to test against?
> 
> I sent a quick email to the FreeBSD foundation and Robert Watson suggested
> someone from Tilera, Chris?, should come to brief the FreeBSD developer summit in 
> Ottawa this year and they would like interested students/faculty 
> from CMU to attend as well to give a talk about their work, in particular,
> progress, motivations, and obstacles, 
> 
> The developer summit would be held just after or just before BSDCan in this
> case, http://www.bsdcan.org/2012/

So, just as a quick reminder. The pre-BSDCan developer summit, in Ottawa, is in 
May and I wonder what it take to persuade either someone from Tilera or the 
CMU effort to turn up for a day and brief the FreeBSD developer base. You can
use devsummit at freebsd.org to get more specific details of the devsummit.

I think this would be an important first step in finding someone from the 
developer base to drive the FreeBSD porting effort and BSDCan is probably
quite interesting on it's own.

Cheers,
Mark