From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 19 13:05:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF6CE1065674 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:05:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (smtp5-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 495B28FC1B for ; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:05:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF038404927; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:22:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (tataz.chchile.org [82.233.239.98]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B81743F6EC7; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:37:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from obiwan.tataz.chchile.org (unknown [192.168.1.25]) by tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 926A69BF12; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:34:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obiwan.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7EEB5405B; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:34:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:34:48 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen To: Garance A Drosehn Message-ID: <20080419073448.GG4840@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <20080418132749.GB4840@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20080418165859.GD4840@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Integration of ProPolice in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:05:10 -0000 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 >