Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:38:31 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Roderick van Domburg" <r.s.a.vandomburg@student.utwente.nl>, <freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Reasons for 64-bTT & DHCP import Message-ID: <p06020405bc7ac58581c1@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200403142020.i2EKKb623538@netlx014.civ.utwente.nl> References: <200403142020.i2EKKb623538@netlx014.civ.utwente.nl>
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At 9:20 PM +0100 3/14/04, Roderick van Domburg wrote: >Hello everyone, > >Thank your for the excellent documentation that comes with the >64-bTT change. I am following it on my Enterprise 250 as we speak. Hopefully you'll still be happy with it after you're done... :-) >Probably a Real Stupid question, but why hasn't __time_t been a >__int64_t from the beginning? I'm asking out of sheer curiosity >and insight in development. I think it was just that both i386 and alpha had 32-bit time_t's, so it seemed reasonable to stick with that for sparc64. Later on, the ia64 and amd64 ports started up, and they decided to go with 64-bTT. After thinking about that a little, it seemed like we might as well switch to 64-bTT for sparc64 right now, instead of waiting for when the i386 and alpha ports will switch. Also, I think we initially hoped that "5.x-stable" was going to happen much sooner than it did. And given our original hopes for that schedule, it seemed better to go with the 32-bTT that we were already familiar with. >Also, I am curious why we're not importing ISC DHCP 3 in the >base system. Skimming over the ISC license, I don't see any >direct issues. Once again: don't mean to bash, just curious. This one I don't know about. I'm lucky enough that my sparc64 machine does not have to use dhcp at all... :-) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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