Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 03:26:14 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, Dallas De Atley <deatley@apple.com>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: __P macro question Message-ID: <20020131012614.GA61488@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <3C589A3F.10F18882@mindspring.com> References: <20020130221427.522493A9A@overcee.wemm.org> <3C589A3F.10F18882@mindspring.com>
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On 2002-01-30 17:13, Terry Lambert wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > > Nobody in their right mind is going to run FreeBSD-5.x on a 6809 or > > a Z80 or a 68010. The least of their problems is the compiler. > > I hope your misunderstanding here is intentional. > > I am not talking about running the full FreeBSD-5.x on a > 68010, I am talking about using portions of the code as a > reference implementation. > > For example, taking the TCP/IP stack by itself, with all > the DOS attack hardening and other hardenening, and using > it in a system other than FreeBSD. I'm afraid that even in that area, the changes and differences between the original Net/[123] code and the -CURRENT trees of BSDs are far more than a simple __P() change. One who has to maintain the changes done already in other parts and subsystems of the kernel that the TCP stack changes depend on, has a lot more work to do. I somehow fail to see the point of all this... - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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