From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 1 01:59:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1366B16A416 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 01:59:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rblayzor@inoc.net) Received: from mx1-a.inoc.net (mx1-a.inoc.net [64.246.131.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843FC43D49 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 01:59:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rblayzor@inoc.net) Received: from [172.16.16.68] (cpe-24-29-66-248.nycap.res.rr.com [24.29.66.248]) by mx1-a.inoc.net (build v6.8.19) with ESMTP id 86873399-1941382 for multiple; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:59:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4547FF75.4050102@inoc.net> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:59:17 -0500 From: Robert Blayzor Organization: Independent Network Operations Consortium, LLC User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Macintosh/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Black References: <45475298.5090709@inoc.net> <20061031153134.0f587f84.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20061031215648.GA1884@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Linimon , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Bill Moran Subject: Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:59:26 -0000 Greg Black wrote: > Fair enough. In my defence, I'm fully committed at present and > I have only one amd64 machine which I need for my real work. I > can't afford to run it in amd64 mode, because so much of what I > need is currently broken in a 64-bit world. That much of that > broken software is interpreters and compilers for languages I > use is a pretty sad reflection on people who should know a bit > more about writing correct software, but that's got nothing to > do with FreeBSD, except as a platform for running it on. I've checked all of the ports we really need and all of them don't seem to have a problem being installed under amd64. I'm mostly interested in running amd64 on higher end hardware that doesn't have an issue of addressing 4GB or more of RAM. The PAE capability on i386 still seems to be a bit experimental? -- Robert Blayzor, BOFH INOC, LLC rblayzor\@(inoc.net|gmail.com) PGP: 0x66F90BFC @ http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 6296 F715 038B 44C1 2720 292A 8580 500E 66F9 0BFC telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused