From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 01:15:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50FA16A4B3 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:15:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pandora.cs.kun.nl (pandora.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF3F43F75 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:15:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adridg@cs.kun.nl) Received: from localhost by pandora.cs.kun.nl via odin.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.33] with ESMTP for id h9M8FUsb010691 (8.12.10/3.58); Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:15:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: Adriaan de Groot To: amd64@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:15:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20031022075730.8D01E2A8DA@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20031022075730.8D01E2A8DA@canning.wemm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310221015.37534.adridg@cs.kun.nl> Subject: Re: FYI, I've switched my primary desktop to AMD64. X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:15:33 -0000 On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:57, you wrote: > Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > On Friday 17 October 2003 19:17, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > I finally worked up the nerve to commit to eating my own dogfood. :-) > > a seperate drive, I can use boot0 to temporarily boot the old drive > and do things like buildworld and get ktraces of identical binaries > in action on a 32 bit system etc. Will a regular old 32-bit install of FBSD even boot? I have loads of drives kicking around with 4-STABLE installs of varying antiquity that would help get me started a lot faster. > > My intention - KDE-FreeBSD core team - is to get KDE in its entirety > > working as well on amd64 as on x86. > > I ran into trouble with kde3base - it wants to link something like > libxkbfile.a into a shared library. This is fatal on amd64, but it > seems you can get away with it on i386. Well then that's one of the things I'll just have to fix, then. I've also been struggling with things like #define unsigned int __u32; (a Linuxism) -- what's the default int size on FBSD-amd64? (I realize I could assemble the system, boot the 5.1 snapshot from David, and find out for myself, but that may take quite some time). > Marvel bought syskonnect. This is a 3com rebadged version. Note that > 5.1-R does not recognize this chip so if you boot from the 5.1 release cd, > you'll have to get the updated driver by other means. (I used one of the > many fxp cards I had laying on my desk). You high-end guys crack me up. I think I have a spare RTL8029 here .. I'll just have to see what David's snapshot build does (besides panic under load, as described here earlier) and wait for the next build. [ade] (The _other_ one)