Re: authenticated NFS service on Lemote 2F

[Christian Franke <cfchris6@yahoo.de>]

On 08/16/2008 01:28 PM, zhangweiwu@realss.com wrote:
> Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > On sam, 2008-08-16 at 15:33 +0800, zhangweiwu@realss.com wrote:
> >   
> > > The problem: the modified version of Debian Linux offered by the
> > > manufacturer doesn't have nfs-kernel-server, only have
> > > nfs-user-server.
> > >     
> > Can't you add Debian sources for this an install nfs-kernel-server?
> >   
> I can. But this computer uses a very special CPU ("Loongson") which says
> it is 95% with MIPS instruction set, so I am afraid their "modification"
> is modify debian so they don't use missing MIPS instructions, thus
> adding a typical debian mips source wouldn't work.

If they provide only binary images of the kernel, you can request them to send 
you the (modified parts of the) source, GPL makes this their duty, if they carry 
it out or not, that is, unfortunately, another question. Anyway, maybe there are 
already headers in /lib/modules/kernelversion/build against which you can build 
the nfsd-module, or maybe, there is a kernel-header-package available from the 
manufacturer.

Regards,
Christian Franke