On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 09:41:12PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 03:31:48PM -0400, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 15:29, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > i am trying to get a tunnel working on sparc to get 6bone > > > connectivity - Done that on i386 a couple of times without > > > any problem - On Sparc (2.4.18 vanilla) it gives me an ioctl error > > > although the 6in4 tunnel driver is in the kernel: > > > > None of the tunneling works on sparc/sparc64. The ioctls are not > > implemented at all. I looked into fixing this a while back and decided > > it was low priority. > > > > This thread comes up a lot though, so maybe its a good side project for > > someone to undertake. > > Why are those kind of ioctls in any way architecture specific ?!?
64bit kernel <-> 32bit userspace ioctl calls The kernel has to translate these. See arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
