On 8/31/2019 11:10 AM, John Forecast via cctalk wrote:
I finally got around to getting DECnet running on the latest release of
Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi (the 2019-7-10 Buster release). I’ve also done
some (very) limited testing on Debian Buster (both 32- and 64-bit x86
kernels). For anyon
I finally got around to getting DECnet running on the latest release of
Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi (the 2019-7-10 Buster release). I’ve also done
some (very) limited testing on Debian Buster (both 32- and 64-bit x86
kernels). For anyone who is interested the code is available at:
> On Jul 3, 2019, at 2:31 PM, E. Groenenberg via cctalk
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> On Wed, July 3, 2019 18:52, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
>> On 7/3/19 7:05 AM, E. Groenenberg via cctalk wrote:
>>> Kernel 2.6.32 was the last one to activly support Decnet.
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>> What does "actively support" mea
On 7/3/19 12:31 PM, E. Groenenberg wrote:
It's good to hear that later release work fine with it (even if it is
to some point).
Maybe it was silently maintained by others later on, who knows?
I think there is a LOT of the Linux kernel that /still/ works by
happenstance.
As in the things th
On Wed, July 3, 2019 18:52, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> On 7/3/19 7:05 AM, E. Groenenberg via cctalk wrote:
>> Kernel 2.6.32 was the last one to activly support Decnet.
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> What does "actively support" mean?
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> I got DECnet working in 2.6.38 with everything I tested.
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> I got DECnet work
On Wed, July 3, 2019 19:51, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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>> On Jul 3, 2019, at 9:05 AM, E. Groenenberg via cctalk
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>> Kernel 2.6.32 was the last one to activly support Decnet.
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> Do you mean that in the sense of "it's listed in the documentation as a
> supported feature" -- r
On Wed, July 3, 2019 19:25, Robert Armstrong via cctalk wrote:
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> On 7/3/19 6:39 AM, John Many Jars via cctalk wrote:
>> Say, can anyone tell me which version of the kernel was the last one to
>> work with Decnet?
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> Version 4.4.x kernels (Ubuntu 16.04.x) and maybe later can be made to
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On 7/3/19 11:25 AM, Robert Armstrong via cctalk wrote:
Version 4.4.x kernels (Ubuntu 16.04.x) and maybe later can be made to
work with some tweaking. See http://rullf2.xs4all.nl/decnet/
Thank you for sharing that.
I will file it away for future use.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 7/3/19 6:39 AM, John Many Jars via cctalk wrote:
> Say, can anyone tell me which version of the kernel was the last one to
> work with Decnet?
Version 4.4.x kernels (Ubuntu 16.04.x) and maybe later can be made to work
with some tweaking. See http://rullf2.xs4all.nl/decnet/
Bob
> On Jul 3, 2019, at 9:05 AM, E. Groenenberg via cctalk
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> Kernel 2.6.32 was the last one to activly support Decnet.
Do you mean that in the sense of "it's listed in the documentation as a
supported feature" -- rather than "it can be turned on and if you do that it
works" ?
I have it running on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with the latest Raspbian Buster release
so that would be running kernel 4.19.50. Debian has not yet officially released
Buster (this coming weekend I believe) so this is somewhat of a pre-release.
Before anyone asks, there are still a couple of issues to t
Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> Well, that confuses me.
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> $ uname -r
> 4.15.0-50-generic
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> And my system supports decnet just fine. I can connect
> to my VMS systems and I can connect to this Linux box
> from a DECServer 200.
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Doesn't a DECServer 200 speak LAT rather than DECNet?
Regards,
Pet
On 7/3/19 9:05 AM, E. Groenenberg via cctalk wrote:
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> On Wed, July 3, 2019 14:39, John Many Jars via cctalk wrote:
>> Say, can anyone tell me which version of the kernel was the last one to
>> work with Decnet?
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>> Does anyone know what the actual issues are? My friend who does kernel
>> s
On 7/3/19 7:05 AM, E. Groenenberg via cctalk wrote:
Kernel 2.6.32 was the last one to activly support Decnet.
What does "actively support" mean?
I got DECnet working in 2.6.38 with everything I tested.
I got DECnet working to a lesser degree with 3..
(I can boot VMs and get specific versions
On Wed, July 3, 2019 14:39, John Many Jars via cctalk wrote:
> Say, can anyone tell me which version of the kernel was the last one to
> work with Decnet?
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> Does anyone know what the actual issues are? My friend who does kernel
> stuff wants to know.
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> Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems: "Th
On 7/3/19 10:22 AM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
I'll see if I can find any notes.
Typical. As soon as I hit send, I find what I was looking for.
Here's what I tweeted in December '17:
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I’ve managed to get DECnet working in Ubuntu 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14.
9, 10, and 11 work with ever
On 7/3/19 6:39 AM, John Many Jars via cctalk wrote:
Say, can anyone tell me which version of the kernel was the last one to
work with Decnet?
I was playing with DECnet in December '17, particularly for MAIL-11 in
VMs running older Ubuntu.
I got it to work well in 2.6.38. (At least I didn't
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