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Heads-Up: 64-bit clean routing socket diffs
At http://www.netbsd.org/~matt/route64-diffs.txt is a set of diffs against
NetBSD that will add a 64-bit clean routing socket. This allows 32-bit
programs which use the routing socket or PF_ROUTE sysctls to work when using a
64-bit kernel under COMPAT_NETBSD32. This has required using fixed sized types
in all routing messages, aligning things to 64-bit boundaries, and thusly
bumping RTM_VERSION by 1 to 4.
Since that would cause existing programs to not work, I've also assigned
AF_ROUTE/PF_ROUTE a new number. To use the new 64-bit clean routing socket,
you will need to recompile all tools.
If your kernel has COMPAT_50, a old routing socket will provided for existing
tools using the old PF_ROUTE value to use. I've booted a new kernel of a 5.0
userland and it worked fine.
I plan on committing with (with a version bump of the kernel) in a day or two.
After these changes are committed, with COMPAT_NETBSD32, you can run with a
complete 32-bit userland on 64-bit kernels. (except for kernel grovelers will
fail but beyond the scope of COMPAT_NETBSD32).
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