Re: thoughts

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Sven Luther wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:38:04AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > Todd T. Fries wrote:
> > >Future direction I personally would like to see:
> > >- support for IPv6
> > >(are there _any_ plans to support IPv6 in X?).
> >
> > Yes.  For Solaris 9, we added IPv6 support to Xsun.  As we did this we
> > found a few areas the X protocols needed to be updated to support this,
> > and we've been working with X.org to get the standards revised to include
> > this.  We've produced a set of patches that add this support to X11R6.6
> > & XFree86 4.3.0 that we are preparing to release as part of the public
> > review of the standards changes in the near future.  (I'm currently doing
> > some final testing of the 4.3.0 patches on Linux & interoperability testing
> > between them & what we already released in Solaris 9.)
>
> There was also mail about IPv6 patches on the debian-x mailing list. I
> did not follow it though.
>

Hi all,
	probably I am the one that should speak. I did manage to produce a
set of patch based on the kame one in order to have IPv6 working on linux.
I was completing the tests as well on Xfree4.3.0 before discussing the
issue here. I did try to contact X.org in order to coordinate the work but
i did not get any answer back (probably someone here can tell me why?).
Anyway I will bring up a thread in a week or so since I am leaving for the
next week and I won't be able to follow the discussion.

You can start anyway taking a look here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=172962

just a note. the patches are actually not online at the url specified in
the thread. If there is any debian user out there you cat apt-get source
xfree86 from debian.fabbione.net and check for debian/patches/99*


As I wrote in there and i repeat here some pieces of code ar workarounds
to some debian and linux specific issues due also to my limited knowledge
of X.

Regards
Fabio

PS just note that i will not be able to answer back for the next week or
so.

-- drac (1.11-7) unstable; urgency=low
  * added IPv6 patch from the great IPv6 Team

 -- Noel Koethe <[email protected]>  Sun,  9 Feb 2003 19:33:00 +0100