From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 2 19:10:26 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 A1C9C16A4CF for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 19:10:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.mcneil.com (mcneil.com [24.199.45.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7514C43D39 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 19:10:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean@mcneil.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.mcneil.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mcneil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C74F1B3C; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 12:10:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mcneil.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.mcneil.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 94332-03; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 12:10:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [24.199.45.54] (mcneil.com [24.199.45.54]) by mail.mcneil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AE92F1B18; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 12:10:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean McNeil To: miha@ghuug.org In-Reply-To: <200410021900.08350.miha@ghuug.org> References: <20041002144347.GA66319@enemy.org> <20041002184843.GB66319@enemy.org> <200410021900.08350.miha@ghuug.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-rlsTazHW3k2gOjPYyR/S" Message-Id: <1096744220.95617.5.camel@server> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 12:10:20 -0700 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mcneil.com cc: Alex D'Elia cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 on Asus K8V SE Deluxe 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: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 19:10:26 -0000 --=-rlsTazHW3k2gOjPYyR/S Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 12:00, Mikhail P. wrote: > On Saturday 02 October 2004 18:48, Alex D'Elia wrote: > > pcm0: port 0xc800-0xc8ff irq 22 at device 17.5 on pci0 > > pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > > pcm0: >=20 > That's good. >=20 > > > > now one last issue for me, is the Linux compatibility, but I think > > that must be a problem, as it seems that the emulation works > > only for i386 archs ! mhh !! >=20 > Yes, that's the issue with linux compatibility on amd64.. > It seems like you'll be using computer as desktop, so I would suggest tha= t you=20 > switch to 32bit mode - it will be still (almost) as fast as in 64bit - an= d=20 > install i386 distribution. That way you will have much less issues with=20 > emulation/multimedia. 32-bit Linux emulation would be all he could use in 32-bit mode anyway.=20 Linux32 emulation works great for me and I have no significant issues with anything running in 64-bit mode natively either. The only exception being the lack of a Java VM. This is a well-known limitation that will hopefully be addressed when Suns Java 5 comes out with a source license in a few more weeks. Cheers, Sean --=-rlsTazHW3k2gOjPYyR/S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBXv0byQsGN30uGE4RAiKIAJsESyJWLTvZW7W7hGLw6W1YRFri7QCfT3wi cW6JIyvKC/KqGs9JJnmfhh4= =XhO2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-rlsTazHW3k2gOjPYyR/S--