On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Marc Aurele La France wrote: > >> - Incorporate X.Org responses to comments #'s 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, > >> 13, 14 and 15 (taken from an X.Org-internal document dated 2003.06.17).
> I'm still working on a second round of patches for the X.org review > to incorporate the changes from the comments of the first round of review, and > the X.org architecture task force is still finishing the documentation for the > responses to all the comments. I've just pulled from the XFree86 CVS and will > look at your changes as well for inclusion in the patches. Yes, I gathered as much. Ping me when you feel it's appropriate. I can work from an updated patch (against whatever version you prefer) or, if necessary, an updated comments document more recent than 2003.06.17. > >> - Replace HasIPv6 imake symbol with BuildIPv6, defaulting it to YES, and > >> build in IPv6 support whenever BuildIPv6 is asserted _and_ the OS > >> #define's AF_INET6. This is to maximise IPv6 code exposure and > >> eliminate <OS>.cf file changes to support IPv6. > One word of warning - unless you changed it (I haven't looked yet) the patches > we supplied assume that if built with IPv6 defined, you can always use an > AF_INET6 socket to open a connection to any IPv4 or IPv6 host. This can fail > on OS'es where you can recompile your kernel without IPv6 support, and as has > been discussed on other mailing lists, a fallback to AF_INET4 for IPv4 addresses > if AF_INET6 fails needs to be coded in for Linux/BSD distributors who want to > ship with IPv6 by default, but allow the same binary packages to run on systems > without IPv6 support as well. My feeling is that this is addressed by your response to comment #15 (which I've integrated). > > - libdps needs IPv6 work. Perhaps other things (not included in X.Org's > > tree) do also. > True. I did not touch DPS at all - I didn't think anyone made a DPS/NX > standalone agent that was IPv6 capable, nor that anyone was working on it. > I believe as long as you only use DPS as an extension built into the X server > it will work fine (at least we haven't seen problems with that on Solaris > since we shipped like this in Solaris 9). I think the best thing to do here is to recode DPS to rely on xtrans. But that's out of my league at the moment... > As for other things in XFree86 outside the X.org tree, you may want to try > running the Sun "IPv6 socket scrubber" (it greps for code that is likely to > need changing). It's what I used when I started working on IPv6 for Xsun and > then the X.org/XFree86 ports to determine what areas to look at. Unfortunately, > since I left all the old IPv4 code in and made the IPv6 an alternative instead > of a replacement (since otherwise we'd break all the old platforms), it will > return "false positives" on all the old code. You can download the scrubber > for free from http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/ipv6/ Super. Thanks for the pointer. I'll check this out. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
