Re: Patches for the Hurd on OSF Mach/PowerPC

2003-06-12 Thread Marco Gerards
Peter Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've put a couple of patches for glibc and the Hurd on > http://huizen.dds.nl/~pjbruin/hurd/, together with a small bit of > explanation. Some of the patches (libc-powerpc.patch, dl-start.S, > {ext2fs,libports,libshouldbeinlibc,libstore}.patch) are reason

Re: Patches for the Hurd on OSF Mach/PowerPC

2003-06-12 Thread ddavies
> "M. Gerards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On what kind of PPCs does it work now? > > As far as I know, only on a certain PowerMac 5500/225 ;-) > > It should work on any PPC which can boot the OSF Mach kernel, i.e. on which > MkLinux runs (and maybe a couple more). You can find the kerne

Re: Patches for the Hurd on OSF Mach/PowerPC

2003-06-12 Thread Peter Bruin
"M. Gerards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On what kind of PPCs does it work now? As far as I know, only on a certain PowerMac 5500/225 ;-) It should work on any PPC which can boot the OSF Mach kernel, i.e. on which MkLinux runs (and maybe a couple more). You can find the kernel on (a mirror o

Re: Patches for the Hurd on OSF Mach/PowerPC

2003-06-12 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 04:00:04PM +0200, M. Gerards wrote: > > The ext2 file system uses little-endian order, whereas htons etc. convert > > from > > native to network (big-endian) byte-order. So using htons would give you > > exactly the wrong result. (Actually, I didn't even think of using hto

Re: Patches for the Hurd on OSF Mach/PowerPC

2003-06-12 Thread M. Gerards
> The ext2 file system uses little-endian order, whereas htons etc. convert > from > native to network (big-endian) byte-order. So using htons would give you > exactly the wrong result. (Actually, I didn't even think of using htons, > since > I looked at the Linux code for ext2fs and copied the l

Re: Patches for the Hurd on OSF Mach/PowerPC

2003-06-12 Thread Peter Bruin
Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a really quick look at your patches, especially the ext2fs > patch. I have a little (perhaps stupid) question about this patch. I > usually use htons ntos, etc. for handling endianess. Was there a > reason not to use these functions? I'm really happ

Re: Patches for the Hurd on OSF Mach/PowerPC

2003-06-09 Thread Marco Gerards
Peter Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've put a couple of patches for glibc and the Hurd on > http://huizen.dds.nl/~pjbruin/hurd/, together with a small bit of > explanation. Some of the patches (libc-powerpc.patch, dl-start.S, > {ext2fs,libports,libshouldbeinlibc,libstore}.patch) are reason

Patches for the Hurd on OSF Mach/PowerPC

2003-06-06 Thread Peter Bruin
Hi, I've put a couple of patches for glibc and the Hurd on http://huizen.dds.nl/~pjbruin/hurd/, together with a small bit of explanation. Some of the patches (libc-powerpc.patch, dl-start.S, {ext2fs,libports,libshouldbeinlibc,libstore}.patch) are reasonably clean, while the rest is somewhat more