Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:09:06 -0500 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! MAJOR change to FreeBSD/sparc64 Message-ID: <20040310180906.GB20885@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <p060204f5bc750679b827@[128.113.24.47]> References: <p060204f5bc750679b827@[128.113.24.47]>
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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.
I'll get started on a new snapshot build of -current as of shortly
after this commit and replace the ISO image in snapshots/sparc64 on
the FreeBSD mirror sites (well, the ones that carry snapshots/ anyway).
When it's in place I'll let you know. Probably two or three days.
As a reminder, Garance's instructions have been excellent so far. I'm
just doing this in case someone does wind up having problems and ends
up with a machine that won't boot. Installing from this snapshot once
it's built would start you off with a machine that already has the
64-bit time_t change done so you wouldn't need to re-attempt the upgrade.
--
Ken Smith
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