Re: PPC support

From: Vincent Danen (vdanen-d-1029095533.3728223fat_private)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 12:52:12 PDT

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    On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:52:10 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
    
    > > I've been subscribed to the list for a while and finally managed to
    > > catch up on some of the mails on here.  I'm looking to play with LSM
    > > a little, but my security "work" machine is an ibook (thus PPC), and I
    > > don't see any PPC support in the LSM patch (I see a little IA64 and x86).
    > 
    > Hi Vincent,
    > 
    > As others have mentioned, basic porting is not much work.  I would
    > gladly accept a patch to do this.  You'll note the 2.5 tree is a bit
    > ahead of the 2.4 tree wrt. sourcing security/Config.in in the arch
    > specific config.in.  Also, the ioperm/iopl port protection concept does
    > not port to PPC.
    
    If I come up with something useable, I'll fire the patch your way, Chris.  I haven't looked at the 2.5 tree at all yet (I'm more or less trying to evaluate LSM at the moment to see if I can sneak it into a Mandrake 2.4 kernel at some point).
    
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