upgrade i386 --> x86_64?

[peeter (must)]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Samuel J. Greear <sjg at evilcode.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:25 AM, peeter (must) <karu.pruun at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Nikolai Lifanov
>> <lifanov at mail.lifanov.com> wrote:
>> > On 3/19/2012 6:54 AM, peeter (must) wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all
>> >>
>> >> I wonder if there's a way to (cross) compile an x86_64 system on a
>> >> i386 one, ie upgrade 2.10_i386 to 3.0_x86_64?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks, Peeter
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >
>> > From what I understand, it's not trivial to perform this upgrade. You
>> > should
>> > be very careful when clobbering your userland. Neither kernel can run
>> > the
>> > other world.
>> >
>>
>> Thanks, seems better avoid this.
>>
>> Peeter
>>
>> --
>
>
> Probably the best/fastest/safest way would be to boot an x86-64 installation
> image and install over the top of the existing system, then you will have to
> rebuild all packages, you can get started by pkg_radd'ing git and friends.
>
> Sam


Thanks, I was considering deleting the existing i386 file structure
completely --apart from /home-- to avoid that old i386 stuff is left
behind by accident.

On a related note, I found a GSoC project to implement a i386 ABI for
x86_64 kernel. I wonder what is the status of this?

Peeter

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