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Date:      Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:33:19 +0600
From:      Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
To:        "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: netncp/nwfs is rotting...
Message-ID:  <20030225143319.A59106@iclub.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20030224222028.A93044@hub.freebsd.org>; from tjr@freebsd.org on Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:20:28PM -0800
References:  <20030224222028.A93044@hub.freebsd.org>

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hi, there!

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:20:28PM -0800, Tim J. Robbins wrote:
j
> A few months ago there was a thread on this list discussing the state
> of NWFS/netncp/libncp/etc. on 5.0. Terry Lambert produced a patch [1]
> that made netncp compile. The patch still applies cleanly to -current
> and almost compiles; I broke it with ncp_ncp.c rev 1.13, adding
> #includes of sys/lock.h and sys/mutex.h fixes it.
> 
> However, even with this patch, ncp.ko still does not load because the
> aout_sysvec symbol is not available. After patching ncp_load() to use
> SYS_MAXSYSCALL instead of elf_sysvec.sv_size, the module loads but
> crashes in ncp_timer():
> 
> ncp_load: [210-213]
> 
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> fault virtual address   = 0x10
> fault code              = supervisor read, page not present
> instruction pointer     = 0x8:0xc1027d39
> stack pointer           = 0x10:0xc5b9cc8c
> frame pointer           = 0x10:0xc5b9cc9c
> code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>                         = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, IOPL = 0
> current process         = 12 (swi6: clock)
> 
> 
> Even after that has been fixed, there are plenty of other bug fixes that
> need to be backported from smbfs.
> 
> Is anyone still working on updating netncp/nwfs for 5.0? I think that it
> should be retired to the Attic if nobody has any plans to fix it before
> we create the RELENG_5 branch.

I have a patch that makes nwfs work to some extent (i.e. I was able
to mount and use netware shares from mars_nwe server).

/fjoe


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