cvsup and amd64

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Dec 14 22:02:53 PST 2006


On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:18:11PM -0700, Z. Wade Hampton wrote:
> Greetings to all,
> I'm running a dell 1501 laptop with amd64x2 processor.
> I got a disk from a guru specifically for this architecture, booted it, and 
> installed 6.1 via FTP.
> 
> Yesterday I ran cvsup successfully.
> Today I did "make buildworld" successfully.
> 
> Now, I have a little paranoia about "buildkernel".
> 
> Please tell me, did I need to specify anything specifically about the amd64 
> architecture when running cvsup?  Did I possibly get a GENERIC kernel file 
> through cvsup that is not compatible with amd?

No, unless you tried hard to avoid it, the source tree you downloaded
includes the amd64 code, and you'll be building an amd64 kernel from
it.

Kris
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