From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 09:53:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C395616A4CE for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:53:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au (smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au [210.50.30.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EDB943D5C for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:53:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au) Received: from robbins.dropbear.id.au (203.134.172.20) by smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au (7.0.031.3) id 4148DCF40073480C; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 19:53:35 +1000 Received: by robbins.dropbear.id.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5FACE4256; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 19:55:14 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 19:55:14 +1000 From: Tim Robbins To: Alex D'Elia Message-ID: <20041004095514.GA12643@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <20041002144347.GA66319@enemy.org> <20041002192307.GC66319@enemy.org> <1096745844.95733.7.camel@server> <20041003011653.GA76597@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20041003152917.GG66319@enemy.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041003152917.GG66319@enemy.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 on Asus K8V SE Deluxe X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 09:53:41 -0000 On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 05:29:17PM +0200, Alex D'Elia wrote: > * Tim Robbins [041003 03:16]: > > > On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 12:37:24PM -0700, Sean McNeil wrote: > > > > > If you look in the freebsd-amd64 mailing list archive you will see all > > > kinds of discussion about it. My kernel is built with 32-bit binary > > > compatibility by adding: > > > > > > options COMPAT_IA32 # Compatible with i386 binaries > > > > > > and Linux 32-bit with > > > > > > options COMPAT_LINUX32 > > > options LINPROCFS > > > > > > I do not think these are setup as loadable modules yet, but I might be > > > mistaken. Loadable modules work great now too, so there is no reason > > > they couldn't be built as modules I should think. > > [...] > > > > The only reason these can't be built usefully as modules on amd64 is that > > Linux emulation depends on COMPAT_43, which is not enabled in GENERIC > > (and shouldn't be). There's work underway to decouple COMPAT_LINUX from > > COMPAT_43, and when that's done, the Linux modules will work fine. > > > > > > Tim > > Hi Tim, > > > thanks for that, I got it installed now with that options and the COMPAT_43 > either, but I am ofcourse keeping on, cause I want to see how the system > goes, and where the problems are, so that for the RELEASE things will be > up and running as needed. And no users' complains :) > > so, do you mean is "bad" to enable that option ? > what are the problems I might encounter ? COMPAT_43 won't cause you any problems. The reason it's disabled is that if a "stable" release of FreeBSD/amd64 were to ship with that option enabled by default, users could rightly assume that the additional system calls, ioctls and quirks it enables would be available in future releases. Tim