From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 12 9: 1:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E74F937B421; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:01:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g1CGnIe69325; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:49:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:49:18 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port Message-ID: <20020212084918.A69309@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message