Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/filesystems/openafs

[Sevan Janiyan <sevan%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On 08/10/2017 08:47, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
> On 10/08/17 07:42, maya%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
>> Probably not important to fix as very few people use it but as a reminder, ARM
>> is not strictly little endian, it can be either.
> True, I had this exact conversation a few months back when I put the
> patch together. Unfortunately I didn't make a note of the reason, have
> followed up with the person I was discussing it. I want to say there's
> an assumption on the OpenAFS side but from the brief grepping around I
> haven't found anything obvious....
> 
> Will follow back up, thanks for the heads up.

Aha, this was actually tested on big endian ARM. As the patch you
highlighted, it's trivial to add support for big endian ARM for NetBSD,
the problem is with the OpenAFS' own "LWP" green-threads implementation
which OpenAFS relies on has no notion of big endian ARM and things go
downhill from there (ifdef dances and more), so I left it as is. Will
bring the subject up when I push the changes upstream.
I will follow up later with a patch to the Makefile to mark it as broken
on big endian ARM.


Sevan