OpenAFS?

Peter Bergner peter at bergner.org
Wed Dec 17 08:55:46 EST 2003


On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 13:17, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> I just got a random call yesterday asking about AFS on ppc64, and I
> don't think I've seen the issue(s) described anywhere...
>
> I remember hearing people complain OpenAFS didn't work on ppc64. One
> issue was the code trying to insert a function pointer into the syscall
> table at runtime, which doesn't work because it ends up inserting a
> pointer to the ppc64 function descriptor.
>
> Are there other issues? Has anyone seriously tried to make it work?

That's not enough of a problem for you!?!? ;-)  Actually, I think SUSE
is working on getting it to work.  Try asking _Marcus_ on #ppc64 on how
far he's gotten.


Peter


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