On Wednesday 22 March 2006 03:49, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > netchild 2006-03-21 21:56:04 UTC > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > Modified files: > > sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c > > Log: > > > - make some functions globally visible on alpha > > According to the CVS history someone tried those functions on alpha in the > past, but they failed to work correctly. Unfortunately the cause of the > breakage isn't recorded. Since then a lot of commits where done and the > problem may or may not exists anymore. If someone is able to actually test > the linuxolator on alpha (I have some doubts that we have a linux_base which > works on alpha *and* is still supported by the distributor and as such is > also safe from a security point of view), I would be pleased to hear about > success or failure. And in case of a failure I may have some ideas how to > fix it on alpha...
This is probably because Linux/alpha tends to be compatiable with Tru64 (OSF/1) rather than Linux/i386. > If nobody is using the linuxolator on alpha with a recent FreeBSD (either > because everything is used on x86/amd64 hardware, and/or because there's no > usable linux_base for alpha), I think it would be best to remove the linux > part from alpha. It would make the code in compat/linux cleaner. Or just undo what you did above and leave it as it is. :) I've done various things on the compat code over and haven't been really bothered by the #ifdef __alpha__'s. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
