[1851] in NetBSD-Development
Re: upgrading netbsd's afs to work on the alpha
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Thu Apr 15 11:51:03 1999
To: "Darrin B. Jewell" <dbj@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
From: nathanw@MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Date: 15 Apr 1999 11:45:32 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Darrin B. Jewell"'s message of Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:34:58 -0400 (EDT)
"Darrin B. Jewell" <dbj@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Therefore, I am asking for volunteers interested in upgrading the
> NetBSD port of AFS.
>
> . Is anyone intersted in this project?
I am.
> . Could someone with clue at least provide an estimate of the amount
> of work that would be involved?
My half-clue says that you'd want to start with the AFS 3.5
codebase (supposedly vastly cleaned up compared to previous releases)
and work in our OS-specific stuff. The current netbsd-afs codebase is
based on AFS 3.3, which predates any 64-bit cleaning by
Transarc. Yuck. The possible downside is that the platforms supported
by AFS 3.5 are generally more SysV'ish than BSDish, and they've
supposedly taken out a lot of no-longer-useful code, which may make
doing a port to a BSD-style system more difficult.
> . Is this something that's going to be needed eventually anyway,
> or is it only useful for supporting the Alpha?
It's useful anyway; 3.3 is getting stale.
- Nathan
