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Date:      Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:04:19 -0800
From:      ray@redshift.com
To:        Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AMD64 Ports
Message-ID:  <3.0.1.32.20050323170419.00a904a0@pop.redshift.com>
In-Reply-To: <2fd864e05032316492d805751@mail.gmail.com>

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Can't you pretty much compile anything you want on AMD64 and run it?  I'm sure
some of the code is i386 specific and some is AMD64 specific, but in general
doesn't the AMD emulate the 386's instruction set?  I have an AMD eval machine
on the way, so I haven't done much testing first hand yet as far as ports go.
Should be doing more next week.

Ray


At 04:49 PM 3/23/2005 -0800, Astrodog wrote:
| I'm finding a huge number of ports that claim to be i386-only, but
| that seem to work fine on AMD64, even moreso on the Linux compat side.
| Are there any thoughts on how to resolve this?
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