Re: Does anyone use Appletalk?

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2023-11-01 at 13:26 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Geert,
> 
> On Wed, 2023-11-01 at 13:19 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > Isn't that a bit late?
> > 
> > It can always be reverted...
> 
> Sure, but I'd rather see such discussions before merging the removal
> patch. Best would have been to reach out to the netatalk project, for
> example and ask [1]. They just released version 3.1.18 of the
> netatalk
> server in October 2023.
> 
> It's an incredibly cool project because it allows you to replace the
> expensive Apple TimeMachine hardware with a cheap Raspberry Pi ;-).

But... Time Machine debuted with 10.5 and AppleTalk got removed in
10.6; did the actual TimeCapsules ever support AppleTalk, or were they
always TCP/IP-based?

(also TimeMachine-capable Airport Extremes [A1354] are like $15 on
eBay; that's cheaper than a Raspberry Pi)

This patch only removes the Linux-side ipddp driver (eg MacIP) so if
Time Capsules never supported AppleTalk, this patch is unrelated to
TimeMachine.

What this patch *may* break is Linux as a MacIP gateway, allowing
AppleTalk-only machines to talk TCP/IP to systems. But that's like
what, the 128/512/Plus and PowerBook Duo/1xx? Everything else had a
PDS/NuBus slot or onboard Ethernet and could do native
MacTCP/OpenTransport...

Dan