Hi Mike,
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:32:12PM -0500, Mike Shuey wrote:
> I just spent several evenings finding out that FreeBSD's bootparamd
> isn't 64-bit clean. Turns out, I'm not the only one; in April, 2007,
> Tyler Spivey filed PR 112163 about this. He also included a simple
> patch, to clear up most of the problems (replacing long with ip_addr_t
> in several key places).
Yes, I've encounted the same problem on amd64 as well while trying to
netboot a Netra from a FreeBSD/amd64 server. I recall the problem of
using long's.
> What's the likelihood that his patch could be applied before 7.0 is
> fully released? The patch I'm talking about is his second shot,
> attached to his problem report here:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/112163
>
I'll see what I can do. Thanks for the pointer.
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