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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use MACHINE_ARCH for boot loader
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On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 11:52:36 am Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> Dnia 27.08.2010 John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> napisa=C5=82/a:
> > On Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:50:01 pm Xin LI wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>=20
> >> The attached patch changes FreeBSD/x86 back to FreeBSD/i386 on i386 and
> >> FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64.
> >>=20
> >> Comments welcome!  I'll commit it in by the weekend if there is no
> >> objection on this.
> >
> > As others have noted, the 'x86' is on purpose, and I would rather it co=
ntinue=20
> > to do that rather than this change.
>=20
> Not sure about it, the loader and boot block are 32-bit code, aren't they?
> (That actually made me to hack some patches to make ficl 64-bit, but that=
's
> another story).
>=20
> So I think i386 is better designation for pure 32-bit code I think.

It actually is not pure 32-bit as there is a small bit of 64-bit code to
transfer from the loader to the kernel in the loader.

=2D-=20
John Baldwin