Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:37:48 -0500 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware: amd64, os: FreeBSD/amd64 and ...? Message-ID: <1a3fd33c5baf079afce9ceb386365ecc@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050321233945.0899744e.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20050321233945.0899744e.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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On Mar 21, 2005, at 5:39 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Would I gain anything by running FreeBSD/i386 (on another slice) on
> this
> machine?
Some software doesn't work or isn't entirely reliable on a 64-bit
platform yet; such would run better on the 32-bit x86 version.
> Do most of the ports work on amd64?
> Are there any other caveats?
Most of the ports work fine on AMD64, but there are some caveats with
some of the bigger and more complex ones (things like Java, Linux
binary emulation, undoubtedly others).
Consider the output of:
find /usr/ports -name Makefile -exec grep -l 'BROKEN.*amd64' {} \;
[ This is about 64 ports, but is not complete, there is also the
ONLY_FOR_ARCHES variable... ]
--
-Chuck
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