Re: amd64 - invitation to test

[Jordan Gordeev <jgordeev@xxxxxx>]

Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
> Jordan Gordeev wrote:
>   
> > It's time public testing of the amd64 port begins.
> >
> > The code is available in my git repo at
> > git://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~smtms/dragonfly.git in branches "amd64" and
> > "amd64+hacks".
> > The "amd64+hacks" branch contains what "amd64" contains + some band aid
> > to keep the system working even when a proper fix to a known problem is
> > not yet developed.
> >     
>
> Great!
>
>   
> > You can now begin to find and report (and fix) bugs.
> >     
>
> Does it work in an emulator and if so, which ones are known to work? Do
> you plan to offer a CD image we can install from (not necessarily using
> the installer, the old cpdup method is fine at this stage)?
>
>   
It is known to work in qemu. See Matt's instructions for using 
/usr/src/test/amd64.
It should work in any emulator that supports DragonFly. It sure works on 
real hardware.
I do not plan to offer a CD image. I'm unable to imagine the use case. 
The amd64 port is a work in progress, so one should be able to build and 
re-build from source, and the lack of CD image shouldn't be a problem.
> Can we build amd64 world and kernel on an amd64 installation?
>   
You can. However, I'm yet to test if world and kernel built on amd64 
actually work. :-)