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Date:      Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:24:12 -0600
From:      Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
To:        sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Back to the Future - 64-bit time_t on sparc64
Message-ID:  <20040219202412.GZ68388@seekingfire.com>
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:45:33PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> >All in all, it's a pretty smooth upgrade. The worst part of it is
> >how slowly the Ultra 5 compiles due to the slow IDE interface ;-)
> 
> Yeah, my Ultra-10 is no speed demon either!  :-)

Any idea if a standard Adaptec 2940U works in them? If so, I might be
able to use some real disks if I shuffle some cards around.

> I would like to think we would flip the switch before March 15th,
> but we still have a few details to pin down.  For one, someone
> just totally reformatted /usr/src/Makefile.inc1, so I need to
> adjust my installworld_*k scripts to make sure they work right
> for either format.

Oh, that'd be annoying.

>  And for two, I'd like to pin down the problem with dhclient.

I should note that I'm not using dhcp, and so encountered no network
problems.

> I'm partial to March 4th as the date, just because it would be fun to
> say "It's time to March 4th"...

Heh.

> Well, more seriously, I would prefer a weekday because so many other
> changes get tossed in on weekends, and we obviously have to make this
> change sometime SOON if we're going to have it in before 5.3-release.

It'd be great to have it for 5.3. The 5-STABLE Roadmap doc still shows
5.3 (and March 15th) as the flag day, so it definitely seems like a good
time to toss the switch.

For what it's worth, I spent more time preparing to do the upgrade than
I did doing the actual upgrade. The isntructions were clear, perhaps
even overly verbose in the sense that I thought it would be more
troublesome than it was. Thanks for the work you put in on this!

-T


-- 
The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can
suppose.
	- John Haldane, _Possible Worlds_



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