Re: [MiNT] Firebee Coldfire MiNT Kernel and NFS

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On 01/09/14 09:59, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> On 01/09/2014 08:42, Frank Lukas wrote:
>> The nfs.xfs is not working on the Firebee ...
>
> Indeed.
> See my analysis there:
> http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?p=257629#p257629
>
> I suspect it is related to the gethostbyname() bug.
> Markus has judiciously noticed that all the problematic software use
> reception of UDP packets.
>
> Since this problem only affects mintv4e.prg, I have a big suspicion
> about the UDP checksum routines. They are written in assembler, and
> they were tricky to convert to ColdFire (lack of ROL/ROR instructions,
> etc.).
>
> We should start by adding (or enabling) debug trace on the reception
> of UDP packets, to see what's happening.
>
> Also, since we experience huge timeouts, we should determine what the
> kernel is doing during that time.
>

That sounds like a great starting point.

Alan.