From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 19 13:33:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B6516A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:33:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from melon.pingpong.net (82.milagro.bahnhof.net [195.178.168.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 936CA43D45 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:32:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from girgen@pingpong.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by melon.pingpong.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3791D2CE for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:32:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from melon.pingpong.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (melon.pingpong.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 36925-01-6 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:32:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.187] (81.milagro.bahnhof.net [195.178.168.81]) by melon.pingpong.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52FC7D2AF for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:32:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:32:57 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Message-ID: X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at pingpong.net Subject: Dell 2850 & amd64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:33:00 -0000 Hi! Just got a Dell 2850 and installed FreeBSD 5.3 (AMD64). It is SMP (double Xeon cpus), seems to work fine. I've built an smp kernel from amd64/conf. The machine shall be a general utility system, running email (cyrus) and web (apache), postgresql and php, some simple java (tomcat). Before I build all ports needed, is there anything I need to set to make the ports build 64 bit? All I've done now is to get the kernel built in 64-bit mode. Is that enough to make all ports built in 64 bit? Shall I set CPUTYPE to something? The CPUs are two Xeon, is that p4? Is it even wise to use amd64? Is it stable enough? Docs say so, but browsning this list gives me second thoughts? Perhaps this is all FAQ and RTFM, but I've searched the net a bit about this, couldn't find the right answers. Sorry, I'm still a newbie in AMD64-land. :)= Cheers, Palle