On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 10:50 PM John Forecast <john(a)forecast.name> wrote:
Sometime around mid-2022 the Linux kernel developers
decided to remove the DECnet code from the Linux
kernel. Kernel 6.0.x was the last release which included source code for a DECnet
implementation. More
recently, there has been some discussion around removing the code from the Long Term
Support kernels.
These changes mean that the repository I have been maintaining at
<https://github.com/JohnForecast/RaspbianDECnet> can no longer be installed on
recent releases.
Over the past year or so, I have been working on a replacement for this repository with
the following
characteristics:
- Designed to be built as an external kernel module
John, forgive me if this question is obtuse, but I'm curious: is there
any reason this couldn't be hoisted entirely into userspace and built
using TAP/TUN, which would put a (relatively) clean interface between
DECnet and the kernel?
- Dan C.