From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 20 01:11:04 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 B258716A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:11:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 818FB43D5E for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:11:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iAK1B3nm020519; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:11:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iAK1B21n020518; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:11:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:11:02 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Palle Girgensohn Message-ID: <20041120011102.GC20068@dragon.nuxi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-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: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell 2850 & amd64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:11:04 -0000 On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:32:57PM +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > 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? Do not set CPUTYPE or set it to "nocona". "p4" will be interrupted as a 32-bit machine. > Is it even wise to use amd64? Is it stable enough? Docs say so, but > browsning this list gives me second thoughts? Quite stable. I think it is wise. :-) You will though have access to about 3000 less ports (IIRC) because some are i386-only or simply just don't compile, or run and segfault. > The machine shall be a general utility system, running email (cyrus) and > web (apache), postgresql and php, some simple java (tomcat). Java might be the deal breaker for you... Sun didn't port the JDK to 64-bit AMD64 until version 1.5. You'll have to investigate more how this will affect you. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)