A phone meeting of the TIPC working group was held on January 31, 2008. Attendees:
Al Stephens (Wind River) -- meeting chair; Elmer Horvath (Wind River); Laurent Gan (Sun); Renaud Metrich (Sun) Minutes: 1. Meeting opening The meeting was called to order at 11:05 AM (EST). Jon Maloy sent his regrets as he was travelling. 2. TIPC on Solaris update Laurent and Renaud have now reached the point where they can configure TIPC and establish an Ethernet link between two nodes; they have also got enough socket coding done to allow connectionless messages to be sent and received successfully. (They can run the standard TIPC "hello world" and "multicast" demos.) The code is still at "prototype" a quality level, lacking some of the code needed for full error checking/performance/etc. They hope to add support for connection-oriented sockets and "productize" their code by the end of February. Al and Elmer congratulated Laurent and Renaud on their rapid progress. The work so far has been achieved for both OpenSolaris and Solaris 10. However, Laurent points out that they currently plan to make only the OpenSolaris version available public; to this end, they have add info to the OpenSolaris website to make people aware of their work. Luc Chouinard indicated (via email) that TruePosition is starting work using Linux TIPC for now, but will keep an eye on progress on the Solaris front. Al indicated that they may be good candidates to assist in evaluating the Solaris port when it is complete. (Note: Luc has previously indicated they are interested in using Solaris 10, so there may be an issue here.) Al inquired about the ease of porting. Laurent's comments were: - the TIPC core code was easy to port - the socket code was painful to port (but the difficulty is likely unavoidable, and will vary from OS to OS) - having the VxWorks sk_buff emulation code was helpful (since it was similar to what OpenSolaris needed) - the existing TIPC documentation (such as the programmer's guide) was helpful - they needed to make minor changes to a couple of common files in order to support tipc-config, since Solaris didn't support Netlink; Al said that it would be desirable to modify the standard version of these common files to make Soslaris-specific changes unnecessary, but this can wait until the port is done in case other issues are discovered that impact the common files 3. vTIPC update Noone working on this feature was in attendance, so this topic will be raised again at the next meeting. 4. Meeting close The meeting adjourned at 11:30. The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, February 28 at 11:00 AM EST. Please let me know of any errors or omissions. Regards, Al Stephens TIPC WG Chair [END] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ tipc-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tipc-discussion
