From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 25 05:05:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A389416A41B for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:05:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shuey@fmepnet.org) Received: from maggie.fmepnet.org (maggie.fmepnet.org [66.246.224.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7894D13C46B for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:05:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shuey@fmepnet.org) Received: from 74-140-107-121.dhcp.insightbb.com ([74.140.107.121] helo=[192.168.37.102]) by maggie.fmepnet.org with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JIGEq-0005vj-2o for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:32:24 -0500 Message-ID: <4799664C.5050001@fmepnet.org> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:32:12 -0500 From: Mike Shuey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:27:34 +0000 Subject: bootparamd fix for RELENG_7_0? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:05:09 -0000 Pardon my lack of proper protocol - this is the first time I've ventured into reporting FreeBSD bugs, and I'm a bit unsure how to do so. I just spent several evenings finding out that FreeBSD's bootparamd isn't 64-bit clean. Turns out, I'm not the only one; in April, 2007, Tyler Spivey filed PR 112163 about this. He also included a simple patch, to clear up most of the problems (replacing long with ip_addr_t in several key places). What's the likelihood that his patch could be applied before 7.0 is fully released? The patch I'm talking about is his second shot, attached to his problem report here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/112163 -- Mike "No .sig for you" Shuey