From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 21 23:37:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F8816A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:37:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2187F43D46 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:37:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.6/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id j2LNbpi1009341; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:37:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.1.245] (nfw2.codefab.com [199.103.21.225] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0)j2LNbneh025412; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:37:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20050321233945.0899744e.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20050321233945.0899744e.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <1a3fd33c5baf079afce9ceb386365ecc@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:37:48 -0500 To: Torfinn Ingolfsen X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware: amd64, os: FreeBSD/amd64 and ...? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:37:54 -0000 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