Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:04:50 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, src-committers@freebsd.org, alpha@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c Message-ID: <200603221004.54977.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060322094944.2oz3lydykgw8ossg@netchild.homeip.net> References: <200603212156.k2LLu4HU089247@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060322094944.2oz3lydykgw8ossg@netchild.homeip.net>
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On Wednesday 22 March 2006 03:49, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > netchild 2006-03-21 21:56:04 UTC > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > Modified files: > > sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c > > Log: > > > - make some functions globally visible on alpha > > According to the CVS history someone tried those functions on alpha in the > past, but they failed to work correctly. Unfortunately the cause of the > breakage isn't recorded. Since then a lot of commits where done and the > problem may or may not exists anymore. If someone is able to actually test > the linuxolator on alpha (I have some doubts that we have a linux_base which > works on alpha *and* is still supported by the distributor and as such is > also safe from a security point of view), I would be pleased to hear about > success or failure. And in case of a failure I may have some ideas how to > fix it on alpha... This is probably because Linux/alpha tends to be compatiable with Tru64 (OSF/1) rather than Linux/i386. > If nobody is using the linuxolator on alpha with a recent FreeBSD (either > because everything is used on x86/amd64 hardware, and/or because there's no > usable linux_base for alpha), I think it would be best to remove the linux > part from alpha. It would make the code in compat/linux cleaner. Or just undo what you did above and leave it as it is. :) I've done various things on the compat code over and haven't been really bothered by the #ifdef __alpha__'s. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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