From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 15:43:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFFDB16A4CE; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 15:43:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from TRANG.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C3143D1F; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 15:43:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by TRANG.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i62FNsnt085500; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 08:23:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i62FNr6V085499; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 08:23:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 08:23:52 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Kenneth Culver Message-ID: <20040702152352.GB78489@dragon.nuxi.com> Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Kenneth Culver , questions@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org References: <36u63c$231i65@mxip07a.cluster1.charter.net> <20040629103106.gpw4kwscsg88k0c8@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <20040629181248.S54069@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20040630011735.8mv40og88c4goko8@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040630011735.8mv40og88c4goko8@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 15:43:56 -0000 On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:17:35AM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote: > Quoting Doug White : > >Me either. -current actually supports running i386 binaries in amd64 mode. > >Thats one of the processor's features. :-) > > >You can't run amd64 binaries when booted into an i386 OS, of course. > > Yeah you can run x86 but you cant' go into regular 32 bit mode that's all. ENOPARSE, can you please restate this? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)