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amd64 cross-world completed on FreeBSD

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bsd-uber-alles dept.

BSD Forums writes "FreeBSD's Dag-Erling Smorgrav reports the successful cross-world build of the amd64 tree (A tinderbox is system designed to test builds and report failure. In the FreeBSD case, tinderboxes build world [the base system], GENERIC, and if applicable LINT kernels. Dag-Erling Smorgrav currently runs all the tinderboxes by cross-building from i386)."

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  1. FreeBSD portability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Please forgive my ignorance, but does FreeBSD have a bus/architecture independant driver model similar to the one found in NetBSD? I hear that such a gerneric/"object oriented" driver model greatly eases the porting process from one architecture to another. Does FreeBSD have such a thing, or does it have separate drivers for each different bus or architecture?

    I was just reading the following page and began to wonder about this:

    http://www.netbsd.org/Goals/system.html

    I would be greatful for any information you folks could give me.