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[BERTRAND Joël]

Guido a écrit :
> On Tuesday 18 June 2013 12:05:16 BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> [snip]
>> 	This output is generated by sources/freevms/vm/vm_pager.c (launched by
>> sources/freevms/sys/sys_pager.c as a new thread in a separated address
>> space). %RUN-S-STOPPED is written by return(0) from PAGER.SYS main
>> function, as this function ends. In real system, it has to contain an
>> infinite loop that manage memory.
>>
>> 	I have written a first algorithm here :
>> http://www.freevms.net/article35.html
>> but it doesn't interact with thread ID.
>>
>> 	The question is... Who wants to become official maintainer of this pager ?
>>
>> 	You can find all L4Ka documentation here :
>> http://os.ibds.kit.edu/1956.php
>> http://os.ibds.kit.edu/l4ka/l4-x2-r7.pdf
>
> Shouldn't there be some interface specification first?

	Yes, we have to write some specifications. But we need to design a 
maintainer that collects all documentations and specifications.

> Correct me if I'm wrong but as I understand it, the pager should use some
> functions provided by the kernel (for instance sys$morecore()). I assume that
> the interface between pager and kernel is to be built upon the standard L4 IPC
> mechanism. If so, message specifications (label, parameters, etc) would be very
> helpful.

	Right.

	JKB