Re: [gentoo-alt] Preparing for Snow Leopard
I'm pretty sure Tiger still had a 32-bit kernel, even though it had some 64-bit support. Snow Leopard has both a 32-bit and 64-bit kernel, but in almost all macs it boots the 32-bit kernel by default. See here: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-336194.html I'm on IRC as tallest. Thanks, Aaron On Sep 7, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: On 07-09-2009 23:14:47 +0900, Tobias Hahn wrote: SL still uses a 32 bit kernel by default. The 64 bit kernel is optional on supported hardware (hold down 64 while booting). Only SL Server on an xserve uses the 64 bit kernel by default iirc. I guess the reasoning is to give consumer hardware vendors a chance to write 64 bit kexts. On the other hand, most applications from Apple (Finder, Terminal, Safari...) now support 64 bit, but obviously also only if the hardware supports it (so on a core not-2 duo everything will be 32 bit as before). Hmmm, that sounds weird, even my Tiger can do 64-bits stuff (the kernel that is). That was the whole idea: being able to address much more memory. Anyway it obviously requires some scripting. Either we default to 32-bits Prefix on Snow Leopard too, or we figure out a way to see if we're running on a 64-bits capable machine so we can enable 64-bits on Snow Leopard where possible. Thanks for the info! -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
Re: [gentoo-alt] Preparing for Snow Leopard
On 07-09-2009 23:14:47 +0900, Tobias Hahn wrote: > SL still uses a 32 bit kernel by default. The 64 bit kernel is > optional on supported hardware (hold down 64 while booting). Only SL > Server on an xserve uses the 64 bit kernel by default iirc. I guess > the reasoning is to give consumer hardware vendors a chance to write > 64 bit kexts. On the other hand, most applications from Apple (Finder, > Terminal, Safari...) now support 64 bit, but obviously also only if > the hardware supports it (so on a core not-2 duo everything will be 32 > bit as before). Hmmm, that sounds weird, even my Tiger can do 64-bits stuff (the kernel that is). That was the whole idea: being able to address much more memory. Anyway it obviously requires some scripting. Either we default to 32-bits Prefix on Snow Leopard too, or we figure out a way to see if we're running on a 64-bits capable machine so we can enable 64-bits on Snow Leopard where possible. Thanks for the info! -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
Re: [gentoo-alt] Preparing for Snow Leopard
I normally am not on IRC, but I can be if it helps. Aaron On Sep 5, 2009, at 6:47 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: On 03-09-2009 14:51:42 -0600, Aaron Wilson wrote: Thanks, that's just what I was looking for. After bootstraping portage, it informed me that * Your profile is set to /Users/wilson/Library/Gentoo/usr/portage/ profiles/prefix/darwin/macos/10.6/x64. This is certainly not correct for my computer, a Rev. 1 Macbook Pro with a Core Duo processor, supporting only 32 bits. When I looked for a macos/10.6/x86 profile, I found none. Is this a problem, or should I just use macos/10.6 as my profile? I didn't know SL did still 32-bits. We'll have to hack some stuff up for that. Are you in IRC by chance? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
Re: [gentoo-alt] Preparing for Snow Leopard
SL still uses a 32 bit kernel by default. The 64 bit kernel is optional on supported hardware (hold down 64 while booting). Only SL Server on an xserve uses the 64 bit kernel by default iirc. I guess the reasoning is to give consumer hardware vendors a chance to write 64 bit kexts. On the other hand, most applications from Apple (Finder, Terminal, Safari...) now support 64 bit, but obviously also only if the hardware supports it (so on a core not-2 duo everything will be 32 bit as before). Cheers, Tobias Am 05.09.2009 um 21:47 schrieb Fabian Groffen: On 03-09-2009 14:51:42 -0600, Aaron Wilson wrote: Thanks, that's just what I was looking for. After bootstraping portage, it informed me that * Your profile is set to /Users/wilson/Library/Gentoo/usr/portage/ profiles/prefix/darwin/macos/10.6/x64. This is certainly not correct for my computer, a Rev. 1 Macbook Pro with a Core Duo processor, supporting only 32 bits. When I looked for a macos/10.6/x86 profile, I found none. Is this a problem, or should I just use macos/10.6 as my profile? I didn't know SL did still 32-bits. We'll have to hack some stuff up for that. Are you in IRC by chance? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
[gentoo-alt] portage making terminal mad?
somebody else noticed the erase key beeing damaged lately after running portage? i need a "stty erase ^?" all the time... quite annoying... Cheers, Markus
