Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:34:48 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Integration of ProPolice in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20080419073448.GG4840@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <p0624080cc42eef58676e@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20080418132749.GB4840@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <A9207463-477A-458C-A706-A55AA90DEE7A@mac.com> <20080418165859.GD4840@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <p0624080cc42eef58676e@[128.113.24.47]>
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Hi Garance, On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 08:45:13PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > At 6:58 PM +0200 4/18/08, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > > The patch enables SSP for all archs. Unfortunately I've not been able > > to test it myself on other arch than i386, but two years ago I've got a > > successful feedback from Pascal Hofstee on amd64. ISTR there was a > > sparc64 user too, but I'm not sure. > > I have run it on FreeBD/PowerPC for a short time. Seemed to work fine, > but I had this installed on a set of partitions which have sense been > erased. They were not erased due to problems with Propolice, but just > because I wanted them for some other purpose, and I wasn't really to > commit to always having propolice turned on. > > I *think* I also had a build of FreeBSD/sparc64 with this turned on, > but again it was just a test system which has since been overwritten. > (actually I've upgraded to a newer, slightly faster sparc64 machine, > and lost my propolice build while making that upgrade). Thanks for this feedback, I'm please to hear this has worked on other arch too. I had done the src/sys/boot/ part blindly for those, so I'm very happy to hear that now. You should have told me before! :) > The only reason I did the above is because I had a friend who wanted > to move from OpenBSD to FreeBSD, and really wanted Propolice as a > working option on his machines. After I showed that it did work, he > built freebsd with propolice on both i386 and amd64 platforms. But > in his case he screwed up the first time he cvsup'ed those systems, > just because the cvsup clobbered some of the local changes he had > made for propolice. So he ended up deciding it was safer for him to > skip propolice for now, until it's all part of the base FreeBSD system. Yes, upgrading a SSP-patched system is really a pain because this is only a patch. The advised way is to patch -R before doing cvs update and the reapply the patch. Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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