From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Jan 19 1:55:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from bsd4us.org (cn386092-a.newcas1.de.home.com [24.40.46.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DD6E14EF5 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:55:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lgriffin@BSD4US.ORG) Received: from localhost (lgriffin@localhost) by bsd4us.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA32114 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 04:50:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 04:50:45 -0500 (EST) From: Lyndon Griffin To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 32 vs. 64 In-Reply-To: <20000119014317.O67844@relay.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org That's what I thought... what is the feasability of producing a single small kernel that will run sun4 and sun4u and everything in between? By small, I mean 2mb or less (I like the idea of having a boot floppy for those machines that can support it). Again, this is way ahead of the curve, but it's good to have goals. <:) Lyndon Griffin http://www.bsd4us.org On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message