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70 lines
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What needs to be done to port Coda to a different Architecture.
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I. Fixes for the Coda applications
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Coda is a package under net/coda_*; so it should be easy enough to
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build. But there are a few specific files that need to be changed
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first. Of course, setting it up and using it is harder.
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1. coda/lib-src/mlwp/process.s
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Coda coda/mlwp/ implements light weight user threads. The process.s
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file contains stack switching code. It needs to be recoded for your
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architecture. There is some old dead code in the file that you might
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be able to resurrect for other platforms. At present, only the x86
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case, ns32k case and arm32 case (and possibly linux sparc) work.
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2. coda/coda-src/venus/fso_cfscalls2.cc
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The Coda file system expands the strings @cputype and @sys in file
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names in a platform specific way. In fso_cfscalls2.cc, under a
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__NetBSD__ conditional, there is platform conditional that defines:
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static char cputype []
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static char systype []
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Add the values for these strings under a conditional for your
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architecture.
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II. Fixes for the Coda kernel
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The coda/ directory in the kernel is machine independent. The various
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pieces of glue code, viz. conf/files, sys/vnode.h, are in place. You
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do have a few platform changes:
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1. src/sys/arch/xxx/conf/GENERIC or others
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It would be best to take the few lines that define Coda and its communications
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pseudo device from the x86 GENERIC and put them into your platform GENERIC.
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They should look something like:
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file-system CODA # Coda File System; also needs vcoda (below)
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# a pseudo device needed for Coda # also needs CODA (above)
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pseudo-device vcoda 4 # coda minicache <-> venus comm.
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2. src/sys/arch/xxx/conf/majors.xxx
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Coda needs a pseudodevice, vcoda, to communicate between the kernel and the
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out of kernel client program, venus.
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By way of example for the x86, you add:
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device-major vcoda char 60 vcoda
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to the majors file.
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3. src/etc/xxx/MAKEDEV
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Something like the code below should work; The chr device
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that is appropriate for your platform should be used instead of 60.
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cfs0)
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name=cfs; unit=${i#cfs}; chr=60
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rm -f $name$unit
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mknod $name$unit c $chr $unit
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chown root.wheel $name$unit
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;;
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We only support one device currently, but historically it is cfs0.
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III. More?
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There still may be a couple of other problems. If so, let us know.
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