From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Feb 12 19:40:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 526B137B402; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:40:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from peter3.wemm.org ([12.232.27.13]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020213034036.LQTC1147.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@peter3.wemm.org>; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 03:40:36 +0000 Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g1D3eZs10192; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:40:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82B573809; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:40:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (FWD) AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port In-Reply-To: <20020212085630.A69462@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:40:30 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020213034030.82B573809@overcee.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "David O'Brien" wrote: > In rev 1.20 of sys/kern/vnode_if.pl Eivind converted this from a > Bourne+AWK script into a Perl script. Well that just makes porting to > new architectures VERY difficult as the boot strapping of Perl 5 is quite > difficult. > > A shell hacker could really help out the FreeBSD/sparc64 porting effort > by updating vnode_if.pl rev 1.19 to have all the functionality the perl > version has today. Perl was the *least* of the ia64 port's problems. We had far more trouble with the compiler. miniperl was enough, and that was simple to cross-build for ia64 using the existing bmake tools. We didn't need any of the other cruft, just libperl.a and a statically linked miniperl binary. You dont need the ASSERT_VOP_(UN)LOCKED() macros to be generated anyway, rev 1.19 should be functional enough as-is for your porting efforts. You'll only need to deal with the -c and -h stuff, but you can use makefile glue to work around that. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message