amd64 cross-world completed on FreeBSD

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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still tier two architecture

[JDizzy]

The ia64 is considered a tier 2 architecture, and as such isn't on the release engineering teams radar yet. Once the tool-chain is self-hosting, aka the ia64 can nativly build the entire world+GENERIC kernel, then it will be considered for a tier 1 migration. This tid-bit of info just means that the ia64 is built on a cross build (with i386 gcc probably). The next step is to take these bits, and install them on real ia64 hardware, and attempt building the tool chain there. A lot of this work hinges on the need to have gcc 3.2 working on ia64, and I hear that there is still a bunch of work to be done in that area before the compiler produces quality code. What would be nice is to import the NetBSD code to the AMD64 stuff, but we need to more unity in the -CURRENt FreeBSD source tree before adding yet another arch. Whats nice is that bus-dma will allow drivers for one arch to work in others with minimal fuss, in theory anyways. ;)

Three-peat!

[usotsuki]

One, two, THREE copies of this troll!

There ought to be a filter on /. that bans posting of messages which already exist on the same topic, determined by comparison against existing threads. Or at least use an heuristic and block just the "BSD is dying/dead" trolls *sigh*

And for an on-topic: Here's to FreeBSD on Opteron!!! *clink*

-uso.