From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 27 20:05:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A2816A47A for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:05:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eculp@unixmania.com) Received: from farris.bafirst.com (adsl-065-081-102-002.sip.jan.bellsouth.net [65.81.102.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74FA213C46E for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:05:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eculp@unixmania.com) Received: from HOME.encontacto.net ([189.129.12.64]) by farris.bafirst.com with esmtp; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:54:53 -0500 id 0006D41D.4682C08D.00017229 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 80) by HOME.encontacto.net with local; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:54:52 -0500 id 0004AC20.4682C08C.00006D9A Received: from dsl-189-129-12-64.prod-infinitum.com.mx (dsl-189-129-12-64.prod-infinitum.com.mx [189.129.12.64]) by intranet.unixmania.com (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:54:52 -0500 Message-ID: <20070627145452.ytifppt70oc480s8@intranet.unixmania.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:54:52 -0500 From: eculp@unixmania.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.2-cvs) X-Originating-IP: 189.129.12.64 Subject: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:05:08 -0000 I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm) (1333.39-MHz =20 686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor =20 3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily kernel =20 with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the old =20 configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. I =20 have configured a slightly modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and =20 was going to build it as a test only to find out that a simple make =20 buildkernel KERNCONF=3DAMD doesn't find /sys/amd64/conf/AMD. There is =20 an old reference in UPDATING from 5.0 that didn't work either. The other question is on today's make world all seems to still be =20 compiled ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386 so I am sure missing =20 something very simple. I'm actually going to update serveral machines, both Current and =20 RELENG. All of which are up to date. Hopefully there will be no =20 major problems. I also plan to recompile all ports once I am able to =20 build and install an AMD64 world and kernel. Right now all is working =20 fine with todays, sources and kernel except they are compiled for Intel. Any other suggestions appreciated. Maybe someone might recommend =20 upgrading the RELENG boxes to CURRENT first? Thanks, ed