[HECnet] DECnet broken with 4.4.0-151 kernel

[Tony Blews]

I've got a spare Pi I was about to get going and try this on... which
is the best version of Raspbian to go for?

On 26/06/2019, John Forecast <john at forecast.name> wrote:

>
> My reply with an attached .zip file did not seems to make it so I’ve made it
> available through dropbox:
>
> 	<https://www.dropbox.com/s/apmy08ydd9jjo6e/decnet-6_25_2019.zip?dl=0
> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/apmy08ydd9jjo6e/decnet-6_25_2019.zip?dl=0>>
>
> This is a snapshot of my decnet directory and dnprogs from about a year ago
> when I got this working. The base kernel was cloned by:
>
> 	git clone —depth=1 -branch rpi-4.14.y https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux
> <https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux>
>
> Extract all the files from the above zip file and:
>
> 1. Copy files from the zip file include directory to <kernel>/include/net
>
> 2. Replace the <kernel>/net/decnet directory with the zip file decnet
> directory
>
> 3. Config to add decnet support and rebuild kernel+modules
>
> I have no idea if this will work with newer kernels.
>
> I made a few changes to the original source code I received:
>
> Kernel code:
>
> 	Added special handling for the 0 area:
>
> 		Connect to 0.0 connects to the local node
> 		Connect to 0.n connects to node “n” in the local node’s area
>
> Utility programs:
>
> 	Fixed a number of bugs in cterm and DAP especially related to talking to
> Tops-10.
>
> 	Allow the DAP utilities (dncopy, dntype etc) to use DECnet-Ultrix syntax
> for specifying access control infomation:
>
> 		node/username/password/account::
>
> 	which avoids the double quoting required to use the VMS syntax on Linux. To
> enable this feature, create an environment variable called
> 	USE_ULTRIX_SYNTAX
>
> Given that Raspberry Pi just released their version of Debian Buster which
> uses kernel 4.19.x I’ll probably take a look at getting running there and
> create a github repository for the changes. I need to finish my current
> project so it will probably be a couple of weeks or so.
>
>   John.
>
>


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