From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 10:28:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08EC516A4CE; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:28:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D487443D5E; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:28:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i06ISOvT042649; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:28:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i06ISOw7042648; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:28:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:28:24 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: harti@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040106182824.GA42422@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200312212239.38557.craig@xfoil.gank.org> <20040106095942.O66232@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040106095942.O66232@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gearing up for 64-bit time_t on sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:28:33 -0000 On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:17:21AM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: > That's just what I did. The real problem is the upgrade procedure and > whether we will force people to recompile everything (and not provide a > compatibility library). I think we can have a 'Flag Day' and not deal with a compat lib. > The only problem with the upgrade procedure I had was with tic, that > for some reason got into an endless loop when running on the wrong kernel. We would need a fool-proof procedure for going from say a 5.0-R install to post 64-bit time_t. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)