On Monday 22 March 2010 9:50:05 am Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > since i386 and amd64 are sharing the same bootcode the bootloader gets named > "FreeBSD/i386" on amd64 too. the following patch is a cosmetic change to have > the bootloader identify itself as "FreeBSD/amd64" on amd64. > > any thoughts on this one?
I would not do this. They really are the same binary. You can take a /boot/loader built under FreeBSD/i386 and use it to load an amd64 kernel and vice versa. The one change I looked at doing a while back was renaming the i386/amd64 boot bits to identify themselves as 'FreeBSD/x86' rather than 'FreeBSD/i386'. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
