Eugene, I worked Paul's pp64 and xa_64 changes by hand over LiS 2.18.2 and will release an LiS 2.18.3 in a day or so. There was problems with the xa_64 changes (they didn't compile) but I cleaned those up too. It does not circumvent the fact that LiS locks up over 40 of the test suite test cases on an SMP kernel, but I will release it anyway.
I don't believe that any changes are necessary for streams 0.7a.4, and it, of course, does not lock up on any test cases. I also have two bug fixes on strinet that I will release. I also have a gentoo fix for the configuration script that was reported earlier that applies to all packages. I will announce the release here when it is done. --brian On Mon, 06 Feb 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Paul, thanks a lot for sharing, > > A couple of questions: > > 1. The files you sent look like diffs, how should I use them? > should I manually copy the changes visible in those diffs > or there is some sort of semi-automatic way to do this? > > 2. Is there any logic in the way you placed those diffs in A,B,C > files? > Or there is no special meaning in that. > > 3. My target platform is x86_64, you said there are some relevant > changes in those > files, but they were not tested. Do you know of anything else > x86_64 related that > I should pay attention to? > > > Again, thanks a lot for sharing, > -- > Eugene > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Landay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Sent: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 08:25:05 -0500 > Subject: [Linux-streams] RH 2.6 64-bit experience needed > > Hello, > > I plan to move my driver to 64-bit RH 2.6.9-5ELsmp. > > I'd like to know if people on the list have experience > > with 64-bit RH that they could share. > > Looks like Dan have some good results with that. > > The 1st problem I noticed it that Configure script cannot figure out > > if my system is SMP. > > There seems to be special RH-oriented function in Configure: > > # Red Hat helper for getting SMP info > > rh_get_smp() > > but I do not see who calls it. > > Anyway, I'll appreciate any 64-bit experience in > > building and debugging. > > Attached are three patches which we apply on top of the > LiS 2.18.0 from [1]ftp.gcom.com. These patches allow us > to build and run on RHEL4 and SLES9 for ppc6 4 and s390x > (64bit) platforms. They also contain changes for the > x86_64 platform, but those have not been tested yet. > > Before running the LiS 'make' we do this: > RHEL4: > ln -fs /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-5.EL-smp-i686 /usr/src/linux > change the '2.6.9-5.EL-smp-i686' as needed > SLES9: > cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.xxx > change the '2.6.5-7.xxx' as needed > make cloneconfig > make modules_prepare > > There are parts of those patches which you may not want > to use in your case, in particular the change to __SID > in stropts.h which was needed for s390x (IBM Mainframes). > > Paul Landay > _________________________________________________________________ > > Try the New Netscape Mail Today! > Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List > [2]http://mail.netscape.com > > References > > 1. http://ftp.gcom.com/ > 2. http://mail.netscape.com/ -- Brian F. G. Bidulock ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the ¦ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists in ¦ http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying to adapt the world to himself. ¦ ¦ Therefore all progress depends on the ¦ ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ¦ _______________________________________________ Linux-streams mailing list [email protected] http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/mailman/listinfo/linux-streams
