[openbeosnetteam] Re: Dial-Up
- From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 19:03:34 -0400
> "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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