From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Subject: Re: 64bit changes in cvs Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:51:37 +0200 Sender: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <40B727C9.4090604@eurodev.net> References: <1085609520.969.128.camel@tux.rsn.bth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: Martin Josefsson , Netfilter Development Mailinglist In-Reply-To: <1085609520.969.128.camel@tux.rsn.bth.se> Errors-To: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Hi Martin, Martin Josefsson wrote: >All matches and targets in the 2.6 kernel works fine on the sparc64 >kernel now. One thing to mention concerns the ULOG target, the iptables >part of it works fine with both 32bit and 64bit userspace, but the ulogd >daemon _must_ be 64bit compiled in order to recieve packets correctly >from kernel, this is true for all 64bit kernels. > > I sent a patch to add autoconf some time ago, actually to fix this issue with 32bit in user space, 64 bit in kernel space architectures. Well, I just want to reopen some discussion if possible, if you consider that autoconf is more than we need for iptables it's ok I will understand. Please see: http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2004-May/015245.html http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2004-May/015246.html >I've reworked the part of the makefile that tries to detect if you are >compiling a 32bit iptables against a 64bit kernel. I hope it works... > > What did you use? uname stuff? I'll promise to have a look at CVS when having some spare time. regards, Pablo