Re: PPC support

From: Vincent Danen (vdanen-d-1029095430.c7f81b42at_private)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 12:50:30 PDT

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    On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 22:28:32 +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
    
    > > Is there no work being done on LSM for PPC?  I'm not a bigtime kernel
    > > hacker or anything, but I like playing... =)  I'm thinking of trying to
    > > port the x86 part of the patch to apply against the PPC kernel, but if
    > > there is something like an incompatability with LSM and PPC, I'm probably
    > > not the best person to resolve it.  =)
    > 
    > Looks like there needs to be a patch to arch/ppc/config.in to do the 
    > following:
    > source security/Config.in
    
    Yes...  this one is definately needed... (I spent about 10 minutes hunting around thinking maybe the LSM stuff was cleverly hidden somewhere).  =)
    
    > Then there needs to be a patch for arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S for a system call 
    > number for sys_security (number 209?).
    > 
    > Then there's sys_iopl() (as previously discussed on this list) and 
    > sys_ptrace() support.
    > 
    > It doesn't look that difficult by kernel coding standards...
    
    Well, I'll give it a go and report back with what I come up.  Thanks for the tips.
    
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