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Re: svr4_net* not being registered?



On Apr 24,  2:21am, bch%methodlogic.net@localhost 
(bch%methodlogic.net@localhost) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: svr4_net* not being registered?

| On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 09:45:30PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > In article <20110423192843.GB25527%methodlogic.net@localhost>,
| >  <bch%methodlogic.net@localhost> wrote:
| > >
| > >Hi Thor.
| > >
| > >Ya, OpenServer.
| > >
| > >I've been playing w/ both IBCS2 and SVR4 (on amd64), but with no
| > >success. Seems like i386 is quickest path out?
| > 
| > Yes, unless you want to write code :-)
| 
| I've got 5.1 (i386) running in qemu right now, and emulation works as
| I'd expect. I'm interested in a discussion about what's required to have
| this supported in amd64 as well. Then I'll know whether it's more than
| I can handle, or something I can hack on.

- copy all the ibcs2 code in ibcs2_32.
- make all the structs that contain longs to int32_t and uint32_t as
  appropriate
- find all the ibcs2 files in arch/i386/{include,i386} and port them
  to amd64
- add the glue from i386/conf to amd64/conf.

christos


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