John Davidson (Ivan Davidov)

Results 22 issues of John Davidson (Ivan Davidov)

[xv6](https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2017/xv6.html) is a very small UNIX-like operating system which can be built from scratch. There is also a [teaching book](https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2017/xv6/book-rev10.pdf) which explains the internals of the xv6 OS. xv6 can...

The title says it all. The Syslinux project has been abandoned long ago and since then the GRUB project evolved significantly. https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Making-a-GRUB-bootable-CD_002dROM

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The static binary ``kubectl`` is the client utility which we use when we manage K8s (kubernetes) environments. It should be relatively easy to add this tool in MLL as overlay...

The USB flash drive installer should be separate helper script in the MLL source tree and should work like this: * Detect the overlay type. * Create FAT partition and...

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Right now MLL simply forces all processes to end and unmounts all partitions. However, if we have ``sparse`` overlay structure, the unmounting has to happen in specific order (unmount the...

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This is generic improvement for the current 'autorun' functionality. The idea is to have 2 types of 'autorun' groups which are invoked on startup and reboot/shutdown. Conceptually, this is equivalent...

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The purpose of this issue is to research how easily Kbuild/Kconfig could be plugged in the current MLL build process as alternative build/configuration system. At the moment MLL provides the...

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Right now the overlay build system has more code than the main build system. Considering that most of the overlay bundles are disabled by default, it is quite safe to...

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My recent experiments with JDK 9 showed that it is possible to run the [I2P](https://geti2p.net/en/) engine on MLL. All necessary prerequisites are: * glibc * Java 9 (for testing purposes,...

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I just want to congratulate you for the efforts you put on your OS project. You've traveled long way since the first time we communicated and you've learned a lot!...