smbfs

[Marius Strobl]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:40:56PM -0800, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 08:45:24PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 04:06:41PM -0800, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 05:20:33PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 08:49:30AM -0500, brad dreisbach wrote:
> > > > > what is the status of smbfs support in the sparc64 port?  
> > > > 
> > > > AFAICT it's still unchanged from last Februrary:
> > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2009-February/006189.html
> > > > It still would be interesting to know how far the kernel part
> > > > actually gets these days on sparc64.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > >From my very limited testing, it seems to work. Since smbfs related
> > > libraries and kernel module are not installed by default you may
> > > have to use attached patch and rebuild all or manually
> > > build/install required files.
> > > 
> > > Marius, since other strict alignment architectures like ia64 or
> > > powerpc enabled smbfs, I guess it's ok to enable smbfs on sparc64.
> > > What's your opinion?
> > > 
> > > The attached patch also fixes an endian bug of smbutil(1).
> > 
> > The patch looks good but I'd really would prefer someone to
> > actually test it on sparc64 before enabling it as no other
> > architecture supported by FreeBSD is LP64 big-endian and one
> > can create bugs that are hidden on any other combination.
> > 
> 
> I did test with/without authentication and can successfully copy
> sys directory to/from Windows box over smbfs. Of course that test
> may not exercise all possible code path but it seems we can request
> more wider testing for smbfs on sparc64.

Oh, sorry, I overread that you actually had tested it, so feel
free to commit it when you feel confident.

Marius