From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 08:56:40 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 39F6B16A4CE; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:56:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E10443D2D; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:56:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6772ED3; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:56:39 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:56:39 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: sparc64@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040311165639.GJ462@seekingfire.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: HEADS UP! MAJOR change to FreeBSD/sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:56:40 -0000 On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:00:07PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > The long-threatened change for FreeBSD/sparc64 has now been > committed. This changes time_t to be a 64-bit quantity, the > same as it is for the AMD64 and IA64 architectures. People > running FreeBSD/sparc64 *will* have to read the UPDATING.64BTT > file for instructions on how to safely build and install this > change. For folks that are already using 64bTT, are any special instructions required to going back to following -current (which now has the change committed)? -T -- "Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience." - Clarence Day