[HECnet] DECnet broken with 4.4.0-151 kernel

[John Forecast]

Old versions of Raspbian can be downloaded from:

	<http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/>

Given the dates on my file system, I would say “raspbian-2018-06-29”. You can upgrade the userland code but don’t update the kernel after you build the modified version.

  John.

> On Jun 27, 2019, at 5:23 PM, Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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