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Date:      Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:10:41 -0500
From:      Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hardware: amd64, os: FreeBSD/amd64 and ...?
Message-ID:  <124b55bd8ede28099d2d4185d3795d93@khera.org>
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:

> This is my first amd64 machine (actually, it's my first amd powered
> machine), and I haven't followed the development on the amd64 closely.
>
> Do most of the ports work on amd64?
> Are there any other caveats?
>

There are a handful of ports that have 64-bit issues, but they are 
getting cleaned up gradually.

The only major bottleneck I have as of today is one perl module, 
IO::Interface, which will compile, but when run return empty data 
rather than proper lists.  I'm sure it has to do with 64-bittedness, 
since it works on i386 FreeBSD 5.3.  I'll track that down and fix it 
sooner or later...


Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
+1-301-869-4449 x806



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