On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:14:23PM +0000, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Author: ambrisko > Date: Thu Mar 26 17:14:22 2009 > New Revision: 190445 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/190445 > > Log: > Add stuff to support upcoming BMC/IPMI flashing of newer Dell machine > via the Linux tool. > - Add Linux shim to ipmi(4) > - Create a partitions file to linprocfs to make Linux fdisk see > disks. This file is dynamic so we can see disks come and go. > - Convert msdosfs to vfat in mtab since Linux uses that for > msdosfs. > - In the Linux mount path convert vfat passed in to msdosfs > so Linux mount works on FreeBSD. Note that tasting works > so that if da0 is a msdos file system > /compat/linux/bin/mount /dev/da0 /mnt > works. > - fix a 64it bug for l_off_t. > Grabing sh, mount, fdisk, df from Linux, creating a symlink of mtab to > /compat/linux/etc/mtab and then some careful unpacking of the Linux bmc > update tool and hacking makes it work on newer Dell boxes. Note, probably > if you can't figure out how to do this, then you probably shouldn't be > doing it :-) > > Added: > head/sys/dev/ipmi/ipmi_linux.c (contents, props changed) > Modified: > head/sys/amd64/linux32/linux.h > head/sys/compat/linprocfs/linprocfs.c > head/sys/compat/linux/linux_file.c > head/sys/conf/files.amd64 > head/sys/conf/files.i386 > head/sys/modules/ipmi/Makefile > head/sys/modules/linprocfs/Makefile > > Modified: head/sys/amd64/linux32/linux.h > ============================================================================== > --- head/sys/amd64/linux32/linux.h Thu Mar 26 17:04:08 2009 > (r190444) > +++ head/sys/amd64/linux32/linux.h Thu Mar 26 17:14:22 2009 > (r190445) > @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ typedef l_ulong l_ino_t; > typedef l_int l_key_t; > typedef l_longlong l_loff_t; > typedef l_ushort l_mode_t; > -typedef l_long l_off_t; > +typedef l_ulong l_off_t;
where did you get this idea? my copy of linux 2.6.16 shows that off_t is being declared as long. can you be more specific about the background of this change? what does it fix?
pgpLhu728jgZF.pgp
Description: PGP signature
