Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 01:04:47 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Tom Cage <k5gj@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -m64 question on amd64.. Message-ID: <20040525080447.GA79477@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <p06020400bcd46a2824b3@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20040510010301.GA6829@timesink.dyndns.org> <20040520122411.GA795@timesink.dyndns.org> <97880ae040520123841ba954e@mail.gmail.com> <40AE400C.80606@earthlink.net> <97880ae040521123272570f3c@mail.gmail.com> <p06020400bcd46a2824b3@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:36:49PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Tom Cage <k5gj@earthlink.net> wrote to Garance: > > I recently upgraded to an AMD64-3400+. Then, following > >the directions in UPDATING.64BTT, I upgraded my X86 copy of > >FreeBSD-5.2-CURRENT to the 64 bit version of FreeBSD-CURRENT. ... > Well, I have no idea about amd64. I don't have one of those > yet (although I'm thinking I might buy one this fall). My > change was just updating things for the sparc64 platform. Tom, As Garance mentioned, 'src/UPDATING.64BIT' is only for Sparc64 and only addresses moving from a 32-bit time_t to a 64-bit time_t. It has nothing to do with changing a machine from being a pure 32-bit platform to a 64-bit one. > But I am a little confused. If I am reading things right, it > should be true that amd64 will *already* have a 64-bit time_t. Correct, the AMD64 platform has always had a 64-bit time_t. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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