On 8/31/2019 11:10 AM, John Forecast via cctalk wrote:
I finally got around to getting DECnet running on the latest release of
Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi (the 2019-7-10 Buster release). I’ve also done
some (very) limited testing on Debian Buster (both 32- and 64-bit x86
kernels). For
I finally got around to getting DECnet running on the latest release of
Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi (the 2019-7-10 Buster release). I’ve also done
some (very) limited testing on Debian Buster (both 32- and 64-bit x86
kernels). For anyone who is interested the code is available at:
> On Jul 3, 2019, at 2:31 PM, E. Groenenberg via cctalk
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> On Wed, July 3, 2019 18:52, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
>> On 7/3/19 7:05 AM, E. Groenenberg via cctalk wrote:
>>> Kernel 2.6.32 was the last one to activly support Decnet.
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>> What does "actively support"
On 7/3/19 12:31 PM, E. Groenenberg wrote:
It's good to hear that later release work fine with it (even if it is
to some point).
Maybe it was silently maintained by others later on, who knows?
I think there is a LOT of the Linux kernel that /still/ works by
happenstance.
As in the things
On Wed, July 3, 2019 18:52, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> On 7/3/19 7:05 AM, E. Groenenberg via cctalk wrote:
>> Kernel 2.6.32 was the last one to activly support Decnet.
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> What does "actively support" mean?
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> I got DECnet working in 2.6.38 with everything I tested.
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> I got DECnet
On Wed, July 3, 2019 19:51, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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>> On Jul 3, 2019, at 9:05 AM, E. Groenenberg via cctalk
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>> Kernel 2.6.32 was the last one to activly support Decnet.
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> Do you mean that in the sense of "it's listed in the documentation as a
> supported feature" --
On Wed, July 3, 2019 19:25, Robert Armstrong via cctalk wrote:
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> On 7/3/19 6:39 AM, John Many Jars via cctalk wrote:
>> Say, can anyone tell me which version of the kernel was the last one to
>> work with Decnet?
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> Version 4.4.x kernels (Ubuntu 16.04.x) and maybe later can be made to
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On 7/3/19 11:25 AM, Robert Armstrong via cctalk wrote:
Version 4.4.x kernels (Ubuntu 16.04.x) and maybe later can be made to
work with some tweaking. See http://rullf2.xs4all.nl/decnet/
Thank you for sharing that.
I will file it away for future use.
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Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 7/3/19 6:39 AM, John Many Jars via cctalk wrote:
> Say, can anyone tell me which version of the kernel was the last one to
> work with Decnet?
Version 4.4.x kernels (Ubuntu 16.04.x) and maybe later can be made to work
with some tweaking. See http://rullf2.xs4all.nl/decnet/
Bob
> On Jul 3, 2019, at 9:05 AM, E. Groenenberg via cctalk
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> Kernel 2.6.32 was the last one to activly support Decnet.
Do you mean that in the sense of "it's listed in the documentation as a
supported feature" -- rather than "it can be turned on and if you do that it
works" ?
I have it running on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with the latest Raspbian Buster release
so that would be running kernel 4.19.50. Debian has not yet officially released
Buster (this coming weekend I believe) so this is somewhat of a pre-release.
Before anyone asks, there are still a couple of issues to
Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> Well, that confuses me.
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> $ uname -r
> 4.15.0-50-generic
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> And my system supports decnet just fine. I can connect
> to my VMS systems and I can connect to this Linux box
> from a DECServer 200.
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Doesn't a DECServer 200 speak LAT rather than DECNet?
Regards,
On 7/3/19 9:05 AM, E. Groenenberg via cctalk wrote:
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> On Wed, July 3, 2019 14:39, John Many Jars via cctalk wrote:
>> Say, can anyone tell me which version of the kernel was the last one to
>> work with Decnet?
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>> Does anyone know what the actual issues are? My friend who does kernel
>>
On 7/3/19 7:05 AM, E. Groenenberg via cctalk wrote:
Kernel 2.6.32 was the last one to activly support Decnet.
What does "actively support" mean?
I got DECnet working in 2.6.38 with everything I tested.
I got DECnet working to a lesser degree with 3..
(I can boot VMs and get specific
On Wed, July 3, 2019 14:39, John Many Jars via cctalk wrote:
> Say, can anyone tell me which version of the kernel was the last one to
> work with Decnet?
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> Does anyone know what the actual issues are? My friend who does kernel
> stuff wants to know.
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> --
> Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems:
On 7/3/19 10:22 AM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
I'll see if I can find any notes.
Typical. As soon as I hit send, I find what I was looking for.
Here's what I tweeted in December '17:
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I’ve managed to get DECnet working in Ubuntu 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14.
9, 10, and 11 work with
On 7/3/19 6:39 AM, John Many Jars via cctalk wrote:
Say, can anyone tell me which version of the kernel was the last one to
work with Decnet?
I was playing with DECnet in December '17, particularly for MAIL-11 in
VMs running older Ubuntu.
I got it to work well in 2.6.38. (At least I didn't
Say, can anyone tell me which version of the kernel was the last one to
work with Decnet?
Does anyone know what the actual issues are? My friend who does kernel
stuff wants to know.
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