From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 18:39:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D9237B401; Thu, 15 May 2003 18:39:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B67143F93; Thu, 15 May 2003 18:39:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4G1dfm2042315; Thu, 15 May 2003 18:39:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4G1dfD6042314; Thu, 15 May 2003 18:39:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 18:39:41 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Michael J. Pelletier" Message-ID: <20030516013941.GA38966@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <1053046569.f0b2ee7da38a9@mail.mjpelletier.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1053046569.f0b2ee7da38a9@mail.mjpelletier.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-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-hackers@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Quick question ia64 vs amd 32/64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 01:39:54 -0000 On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:56:09PM -0400, Michael J. Pelletier wrote: > 1) Which architecture is currently supported more Intel or AMD? Intel IA-64 > 2) Which architecture will be maturely supported first by FreeBSD? IMHO, AMD64. Note I am biased though. Today more committers have AMD64 boxes than IA-64, much less 6 mo. from now. The AMD64 platform has a much more common i386 architecture and can share i386's packages. > In your option which architecture is better and why? AMD64, but again I'm strongly biased and this question should be taken to chat@freebsd.org -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)