From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 14 16:09:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83BE616A4CE for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:09:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5596F43D2F for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:09:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (ba97fa656c650a357e4a1942a731d0f6@adsl-67-119-53-203.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.53.203])i2F09j8A014167; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 18:09:46 -0600 (CST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AEB845337D; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:09:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:09:44 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Stephen McKay Message-ID: <20040315000944.GA93356@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200403140716.i2E7GDKa007204@dungeon.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DocE+STaALJfprDB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403140716.i2E7GDKa007204@dungeon.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: Garance A Drosihn cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! MAJOR change to FreeBSD/sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:09:47 -0000 --DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:16:13PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > On Wednesday, 10th March 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >=20 > >The long-threatened change for FreeBSD/sparc64 has now been > >committed. This changes time_t to be a 64-bit quantity, the > >same as it is for the AMD64 and IA64 architectures. People > >running FreeBSD/sparc64 *will* have to read the UPDATING.64BTT > >file for instructions on how to safely build and install this > >change. >=20 > The change to 64-bit time is essential, of course, but I don't understand > why it has to break backward compatibility. Surely you just allocate a > bunch of new system call numbers (for the 64-bit variants) while keeping > the old ones (so 32-bit time calls still work) and bump the version > number of every library. What else is going on? (I don't have a Sparc > or I'd join your experiment.) No-one donated their time to do it that way. Kris --DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAVPRIWry0BWjoQKURAoJIAJ9Kk50F/eNsLx9m9cIDP/U3FZigRwCfVUps Lr4SN2NP4uNfWBFWRUuq6PY= =r4yt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DocE+STaALJfprDB--