From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Jan 19 1:43:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 521AB14E8C for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:43:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA75979; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:43:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:43:17 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Lyndon Griffin Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 32 vs. 64 Message-ID: <20000119014317.O67844@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Given that Solaris 7 (and 8) can run both 32bit and 64bit executables, can > a sun4u boot off a 32bit-only kernel? Yes. In fact if you want to use ``cdrecord'' on Solaris 7, you must boot the 32-bit kernel. > Maybe I'm mistaken about the nature of Solaris' gradual movement to 64bit, > and Solaris 2.5.1 is indeed a 64bit os? Solaris 7 was the first 100% 64-bit Solaris. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message