On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 11:52:36 am Marcin Cieslak wrote: > Dnia 27.08.2010 John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> napisał/a: > > On Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:50:01 pm Xin LI wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> The attached patch changes FreeBSD/x86 back to FreeBSD/i386 on i386 and > >> FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64. > >> > >> Comments welcome! I'll commit it in by the weekend if there is no > >> objection on this. > > > > As others have noted, the 'x86' is on purpose, and I would rather it > > continue > > to do that rather than this change. > > Not sure about it, the loader and boot block are 32-bit code, aren't they? > (That actually made me to hack some patches to make ficl 64-bit, but that's > another story). > > So I think i386 is better designation for pure 32-bit code I think.
It actually is not pure 32-bit as there is a small bit of 64-bit code to transfer from the loader to the kernel in the loader. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
