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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian La Roche)
Fri Jun 23 18:07:16 1995
From: Florian La Roche <florian@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 22:51:57 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: linux-gcc@vger.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: florian@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de
Hurray. Development start to port the newest networking source code from
NetBSD-current to Linux. I don't have much time, but I hope to have help
from many Linux people who immediately start patching. (Let's see how many
days this will take...)
NetKit-B.tar.gz contains the unmodified NetBSD source code, only all Makefiles
were renamed to Makefile.bsd.
I will put all Linux-changes in NetKit-B.dif. As soon as the port is finished,
I will repackage everything into one big tar-file.
I have put in some more programs that may vanish from the release
source package. At the moment, I have only compiled the biff program.
That is just to give a starting point for other people.
I mirror everything to ftp.funet.fi/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/net-source/new.
(I'll start a mirror to ftp.funet.fi whenever I have done a major change
to it. Promised...)
If you want to have access to a even more recent version, you can look on
jurix.jura.uni-sb.de/pub/source/linux/networking/new. But please do this only
if you develop activly on the Linux-port. The machine is otherwise too
overloaded... (Once you have the big tar-file, you just have to fetch the
newest .dif file to go on working...)
Please don't mirror my home, if you are just interested in getting a new
package without helping me...
To apply the changes, please go into the untarred "NetKit-B" directory and
do "mkdir include/machine; patch -s -p0 < ../NetKit-B.dif".
(Email me, if this doesn't work...)
Please send new changes to florian@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de. Please send only
additional changes and not changes that are already done.
I'd prefer, if you use "diff -u oldfile newfile".
The goal should be to change as few things as possible in the source code,
but use the libcompat.a and the include-directory in the NetKit-B to
make everything compatible with NetBSD. Maybe we can then move some of those
changes into the Linux C library libbsd.a. Then also other NetBSD programs
compile with fewer adaptions.
(Even if I cannot take the time to port most programs, I will try to keep
an eye on a very good C style...)
Other suggestions?
Florian La Roche florian@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de
