[openbeosnetteam] Re: Dial-Up

> "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The current net code cannot run on PPC, nor can it be ported, so I 
> > haven't been able to work on this. But if you guys need any info or 
> > code on PPP or PPPoE, just ask me. I've spent *way* too much time 
> > playing with them writing the net_server PPPoE drivers.
> 
> What do you mean with "cannot run on PPC, nor can it be ported" - are 
> you thinking of the compiler issue, or is there anything else that 
> would prevent doing so?

There is an enormous number of things. The x86 kernel has a lot more of 
the standard library in it, for instance. Huge number of linker errors 
against fairly basic things. Endianness issues. Compiler conflicts. 
There were some missing user-space dependencies too. Non-exported 
symbols (although this isn't that complicated to fix). Fixing some of 
the problems would necessitate almost an entire rewrite of the stack.
-Nathan

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