Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:50:32 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de> Subject: Re: [patch] teach the bootloader minor amd64 knowledge Message-ID: <201003221050.32722.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <permail-20100322135005f7e55a9d000043cf-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> References: <permail-20100322135005f7e55a9d000043cf-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de>
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On Monday 22 March 2010 9:50:05 am Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > since i386 and amd64 are sharing the same bootcode the bootloader gets named > "FreeBSD/i386" on amd64 too. the following patch is a cosmetic change to have > the bootloader identify itself as "FreeBSD/amd64" on amd64. > > any thoughts on this one? I would not do this. They really are the same binary. You can take a /boot/loader built under FreeBSD/i386 and use it to load an amd64 kernel and vice versa. The one change I looked at doing a while back was renaming the i386/amd64 boot bits to identify themselves as 'FreeBSD/x86' rather than 'FreeBSD/i386'. -- John Baldwin
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