[OpenAFS-devel] Running OpenAFS on Linux 2.6 on PowerPC (!)

Asheesh Laroia openafs@asheeshenterprises.com
Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:59:02 -0400 (EDT)


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(Please excuse the long lines in this message.)

The short version is, OpenAFS 1.3.65 knows nothing about Linux 2.6 on 
PowerPC.  I would like to get a PowerPC client on our AFS cell.  I imagine 
most of the code will be similar to Linux 2.6 on i386.

The system runs Debian.  It's running kernel 2.6.6 with some patches to 
make the kernel correctly handle its Radeon 9200.  (It's an iBook G4.)

Does anyone have any suggesetion on how to get started, or is there a plan 
at all to support Linux on PowerPC?

Thanks,

Asheesh.

# ./configure--with-linux-kernel-headers=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.6/
# make

Result attached.

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