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Re: [HACKERS] Valid ports for v6.3

Thomas A. Szybist <szybist@boxhill.com> — 1998-02-14T20:49:14Z

In message <34E5CE64.BA99E3D0@alumni.caltech.edu>, "Thomas G. Lockhart" writes:
> Here is my current list for porting status for the v6.3 release. I may
> have missed at least a few reports, e.g hpux, irix??
> 
> Since the porting support has changed for v6.3, if a system is not
> tested it should be assumed to be broken. Any regression test done since
> Feb 1 will count as "confirmed working", as long as the test ran to
> completion and for the most part behaved properly.
> 
> Any machine which does not get an installation and a regression test for
> v6.3beta will move to the unsupported list. Also, let us know if you
> have an interest in a port even though you cannot actually do the work
> to confirm it; that may encourage someone else to volunteer.
> 
> Marc/Bruce, can you help me clarify the bsdi/freebsd/netbsd/bsdxxx
> entries? I'm not sure which are unique and what the names should be...
> 
>                                                        - Tom
> 
> *  aix/4.1.4.0-4.2 - confirmed working when built on 4.1.4.0 (Darren
> King)
> _  aix/3.5 - not yet tested? close enough to 4.1 to count?? (Frank
> Dana?)
> _  bsdi
> _  FreeBSD/2.2.1,2.2.5 - in progress (Tatsuo)
> ?  NetBSD/i386 version? - not yet tested but should work?
> x  NetBSD/m68k Amiga, HP300, Mac - not yet working... (Henry Hotz)
> *  NetBSD/sparc version? confirmed working (Tom Helbekkmo)
> *  NetBSD/vax version? confirmed working (Tom Helbekkmo)
> *  dgux/5.4R4.11 - patches submitted (Brian Gallew)
> _  hpux/9.0.x
> _  hpux/10.20
> _  irix5
> _  irix6/MIPS
> _  dec/alpha - currently broken? confirmed working on v6.2.1 (Pedro)
> _  linux/alpha - currently broken?
> *  linux/i386 - confirmed working (Thomas)
> ?  linux/i386/glibc2 - minor library breakage; in progress (Oliver)
> _  mklinux/ppc - in progress (Tatsuo)
> _  nextstep - worked with patches on v1.0.9; not working now?
> _  sco/i386
> _  solaris/i386 - confirmed working (Marc)
> *  solaris/sparc/2.5.1 - confirmed working (Marc)
> _  solaris/sparc/2.6 - in progress (Tatsuo)
> _  sunos/sparc/4.1.4 - in progress (Tatsuo)
> _  svr4/MIPS - dcosx and sinix/seimens-nixdorf worked on v6.1 (Frank
> Ridderbusch?)
> _  ultrix4 - no recent reports? obsolete port??
> x  univel - not working now; in progress? (Billy G. Allie)
> 
> 

I don't see linux/sparc here.  The last snapshot I tried was from 2/6.
That ran well.  I just grapped today's (2/14) snapshot and will try that,
and let you know.  I'm using 2.0.29 kernel. 

One issue I've heard of is that _SC_OPEN_MAX is used in 
backend/storage/file/fd.c. I later kernels, /usr/include/asm/unistd.h
was changed. _SC_OPEN_MAX has #ifdef __KERNEL__ around it.  2.0.29 
doesn't have the #ifdef, so I don't have this issue.

I'm not what the correct fix should be.

Tom Szybist
szybist@boxhill.com