Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:15:37 +0200 From: Adriaan de Groot <adridg@cs.kun.nl> To: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FYI, I've switched my primary desktop to AMD64. Message-ID: <200310221015.37534.adridg@cs.kun.nl> In-Reply-To: <20031022075730.8D01E2A8DA@canning.wemm.org> References: <20031022075730.8D01E2A8DA@canning.wemm.org>
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On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:57, you wrote: > Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > On Friday 17 October 2003 19:17, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > I finally worked up the nerve to commit to eating my own dogfood. :-) > > a seperate drive, I can use boot0 to temporarily boot the old drive > and do things like buildworld and get ktraces of identical binaries > in action on a 32 bit system etc. Will a regular old 32-bit install of FBSD even boot? I have loads of drives kicking around with 4-STABLE installs of varying antiquity that would help get me started a lot faster. > > My intention - KDE-FreeBSD core team - is to get KDE in its entirety > > working as well on amd64 as on x86. > > I ran into trouble with kde3base - it wants to link something like > libxkbfile.a into a shared library. This is fatal on amd64, but it > seems you can get away with it on i386. Well then that's one of the things I'll just have to fix, then. I've also been struggling with things like #define unsigned int __u32; (a Linuxism) -- what's the default int size on FBSD-amd64? (I realize I could assemble the system, boot the 5.1 snapshot from David, and find out for myself, but that may take quite some time). > Marvel bought syskonnect. This is a 3com rebadged version. Note that > 5.1-R does not recognize this chip so if you boot from the 5.1 release cd, > you'll have to get the updated driver by other means. (I used one of the > many fxp cards I had laying on my desk). You high-end guys crack me up. I think I have a spare RTL8029 here .. I'll just have to see what David's snapshot build does (besides panic under load, as described here earlier) and wait for the next build. [ade] (The _other_ one)
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