We're using decnet on linux,
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as a way of expanding a control system,
using DEC PDP11s (actually charon11 emulations).
So woud be very interested in keeping decnet supported.
In theory i'd be interested in maintaining it,
but i'm not sure what amount of work is involved,
have no experience of kernel, or where to start.
Any ideas?
Philipp Schafft <lion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 29/11/2011 14:47:19:
> reflum,
>
> On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 15:34 +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
>
> > Has anybody actually tested it
> > > >> lately against "real" DEC implementations?
> > > > I doubt it :-)
> > > DECnet is in use against real DEC implementations - I have checked it
> > > quite recently against a VAX running OpenVMS. How many people are
> > > actually using it for real work is a different question though.
> > >
> > Ok, thats useful info.
>
> I confirmed parts of it with tcpdump and the specs some weeks ago. The
> parts I worked on passed :) I also considered to send the tcpdump
> upstream a patch for protocol decoding.
>
>
> > > It's also true that it's not really supported by anyone as I orphaned it
> > > some time ago and nobody else seems to care enough to take it over. So
> > > if it's becoming a burden on people doing real kernel work then I don't
> > > think many tears will be wept for its removal.
> > > Chrissie
> >
> > Really the only issue with keeping it around is the maintenance burden I
> > think. It doesn't look like anybody wants to take it on, but maybe we
> > should give it another few days for someone to speak up, just in case
> > they are on holiday or something at the moment.
> >
> > Also, I've updated the subject of the thread, to make it more obvious
> > what is being discussed, as well as bcc'ing it again to the DECnet list,
>
> I'm very interested in the module. However my problem is that I had
> nothing to do with kernel coding yet. However I'm currently searching a
> new maintainer for it (I got info about this thread by today).
> If somebody is interested in this and only needs some "motivation" or
> maybe someone would like to get me into kernel coding, please just
> reply :)
>
> --
> Philipp.
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