[1852] in NetBSD-Development
Re: upgrading netbsd's afs to work on the alpha
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Thu Apr 15 12:52:00 1999
To: "Darrin B. Jewell" <dbj@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Message from "Darrin B. Jewell" <dbj@MIT.EDU>
of "Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:34:58 EDT." <199904151534.LAA05470@spoons.bdi.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:46:10 -0400
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
I'm probably going to get one of those boards, too..
> Therefore, I am asking for volunteers interested in upgrading the
> NetBSD port of AFS.
>
> . Is anyone intersted in this project?
Yes. I've already got a tree merged up to AFS 3.3A (on a branch in
the CVS repository in the SIPB cell which is also used by the Linux
AFS bits)
3.3A is the release in which `long' was globally replaced with `int32'
throughout the tree (including in the text of comments) so in theory
it should have some chance of working on an LP64 machine.
I will likely be releasing LKM's for NetBSD 1.4_ALPHA based on that
code at some point in the next week or two.
> . Could someone with clue at least provide an estimate of the amount
> of work that would be involved?
Unclear. You need to make sure the assembly-language support for the
userspace threads goop is sane, and then just port it.
> . Is this something that's going to be needed eventually anyway,
> or is it only useful for supporting the Alpha?
it would be interesting for any particular
> . What are the details of getting access to the source necessary
> for this upgrade?
good question. I'm not sure who these days has authority to "bless"
someone to get access to the Transarc source...
- Bill
