Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:10:10 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=2E_Juli=E1n_Rodr=EDguez?= <warenostrum@gmail.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Question about amd64 tier1 status. Message-ID: <c9470a7c0904160210r37a67b65t82b2eb800803813a@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I=B4m a FreeBSD user from 4.0 version to Current (i386 arch). I've recently switched to a amd64 machine and consecuently to the amd64 version of the OS. You claim the amd64 version enjoys "Tier 1 Status", but in the page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.= html under the point "12.2 Tier 1: Fully Supported Architectures" i read: "Tier 1 architectures are expected to be fully supported by the ports system. All the ports should build on a Tier 1 platform, or have the appropriate filters to prevent the inappropriate ones from building there. The packaging system must support all Tier 1 architectures. To ensure an architecture's Tier 1 status, proponents of that architecture must show that all relevant packages can be built on that platform." At this moment is not possible to run Wine on a amd64 version of Freebsd du= e to problems of the amd64 kernel handling segment registers, ldt segments or something like that (too technical for m= e to explain right but the point is that it doesn=B4t work). No matter which way you try (port, 32 bit package, etc) there is no report of success as far as i know. My question is: "Is Wine a non relevant port (I don't thik so) or the amd64 version of FreeBSD doesn't meet the requirements to be considered a Tier 1 Architecture ?" Hope you will excuse my poor english. Greetings and best wishes. Juli=E1n Rodr=EDguez.
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