From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 05:26:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3213F16A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 05:26:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from pandora.cs.kun.nl (pandora.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A09AB43D39 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 05:26:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adridg@cs.kun.nl) Received: from odin.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.33] (helo=localhost) by pandora.cs.kun.nl (8.12.10/3.61) with ESMTP id i0TDPwZk027942; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:25:59 +0100 (MET) From: Adriaan de Groot To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:23:31 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.50 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401291423.13666.adridg@cs.kun.nl> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: New AMD64 owner X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:26:17 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 29 January 2004 14:13, Brian Tao wrote: > installed to do some burn-in testing, presumably). If this is the > case, why am I seeing references to broken ia32 compatibility? > Shouldn't that "just work"? Or is this a kernel/loader issue with a > 64-bit aware install? It's a kernel/loader issue, mostly. The stack layout is very different in 64 bit mode than in 32 bit mode (or so I gather from messages from DAvid & James). This means that when running 32 bit apps, the stack needs to be treated differently, and the kernel doesn't do that right (yet). > Related to the previous question: should I be able to install > either freebsd-i386 or freebsd-amd64, and both will work? Obviously Well, i386 will work. amd64 YMMV. > the i386 install will run in 32-bit mode, but at least it will run > (and act as a really fast Intel box, I'm hoping). Or is there It's been said several times on this list that running an amd64 as an i386 works quite well and _is_ really fast. I can't confirm that, though. > The Tyan motherboard has an onboard Silicon Image 3114 S-ATA > adapter. I have two WD Raptor drives attached. The aforementioned SATA seems to be the primary source of woe on this list right now. Check the archives a little. For me, with a consumer-grade asus k8v, everything just worked. - -- pub 1024D/FEA2A3FE 2002-06-18 Adriaan de Groot If the door is ajar, can we fill it with door-jamb? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAGQlTdqzuAf6io/4RAnAqAJ0cE6YtQ99gbh1wfDxnN0kjaJ1lhwCfTzbh saxmorQNUDjbEFNFY2eSMNc= =dED6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----