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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