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In-Reply-To: <4C6E825C.5060509@freebsd.org> (Nathan Whitehorn's message of
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Cc: powerpc@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Tinderbox <tinderbox@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: [head tinderbox] failure on powerpc64/powerpc
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Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> writes:
> Next up: tinderbox needs to build GENERIC64, not GENERIC, on
> powerpc64. make buildkernel is programmed to do the right thing is you
> don't pass a KERNCONF, but tinderbox apparently passes GENERIC
> explicitly. This one's in your court!

There is no way to fix this with the current tinderbox code.

MHO is that the entire powerpc64 thing is very poorly thought out.

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