[uml-devel] Re: Upcoming 64 bit uml coop - half-shares

[William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>]

Good evening, all,

On Fri, 21 May 2004, William Stearns wrote:

> 	As I mentioned a month or so back, Jeff Dike has had some success 
> with UML on the AMD64 architecture (Opteron and Athlon64).  As part of 
> shaking out the bugs on that code, we have a new UML coop going up in the 
> near future - codenamed "Ford".
[snip]

	Since I wrote that project summary, a number of people have
written in, either committing a certain amount or at expressing interest
in the project.  We have enough contributors that this system will be
purchased - thanks to _everyone_!
	For some, a full share isn't appropriate at this time - no
problem!  I had mentioned (on the main web site,
http://www.stearns.org/ford/ford-project.html ) that we'd consider
offering "half-shares".  Jeff and I talked it over today and we think it
would be a postive way to include more people in the project.  A
half-share contributor would only need to come up with half the normal
amount, and would get 80M of memory, 4G of disk space, and a virtual
machine running at a nice level of 5.
	As always, if you're interested in taking part, please take a look 
at the above project summary and sign up for the mailing list at 
http://www.whoopis.com/mailman/listinfo/ford/ .  There's still time to 
take part - additional members will allow us to increase ram, improve the 
CPU, buy additional space, or simply bring down the cost of both shares 
and half-shares.
	Cheers,
	- Bill

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