From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 28 05:19:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13FB16A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 05:19:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rly09c.srv.mailcontrol.com (cluster-c.mailcontrol.com [168.143.177.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EC7243D4C for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 05:19:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james.gallagher@misys.com) Received: from singex2.misys.com ([203.126.166.10])j3S5J9sR018422; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 06:19:10 +0100 Received: by singex2.misys.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:17:24 +0800 Message-ID: From: "Gallagher, James" To: "'Garance A Drosihn'" , Chuck Robey , sparc64@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:17:20 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) X-Scanned-By: MailControl A-05-00-20 (www.mailcontrol.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: RE: 64 bit time? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 05:19:15 -0000 -----Original Message----- From: Garance A Drosihn [mailto:drosih@rpi.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:32 PM To: Chuck Robey; sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64 bit time? At 12:33 AM +0000 4/28/05, Chuck Robey wrote: >>I just downladed and installed FreeBSD-space 5.3, then I read the >>UPDATING and got shocked by the info about time, which I hadn't been >>aware of. Teh info on how to tell if you're running on 32 or 64 bit >>time in UPDATING relies on the sources, not the installed include >>files, so I don't honestly know if I'm running on a 32 bit or 64 bit >>time system. >> >>Do I have to do a conversion, or is it in my past (as far as the >>sparc64 is concerned)? >If you did a clean-install of 5.3-release, then it is in your >past. But if you are running 5.2, and then you cvsup'ed your >/usr/src tree to 5.3, then the switch would be in your future. >You would be running a 5.2.1 system, and reading UPDATING to >find out what tricks were needed to do a source-upgrade to 5.3. >I admit this could have been worded a bit more clearly, but when >that was written I was thinking only of people who were doing >source upgrades. Oh bugger comes to mind :) I didn't read that very well when I was setting up 5.3 recently (from ISO, then did a cvsup), so I went for 32bit. Will have to do a cleanup op at some point in the future. James