Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:43:54 -0500 From: "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu> To: "Adriaan de Groot" <adridg@cs.kun.nl>, <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Cc: "Michael J. Pelletier" <mjpelletier@mjpelletier.com> Subject: RE: AMD64 support in 5.x versions Message-ID: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8CBBE06@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>
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I downloaded the 5.2-RC2 AMD64 miniinst ISO to try on a MSI K8T800 based dual opteron system today. I found that the system panicked when I used ACPI, and without ACPI the onboard broadcom ethernet is not initialized correctly (something about return type/code of 6 I believe). This may or may not be AMD64 related. It does boot multi user w/o acpi on my system, I can log in and do some things, but without network support I was not able to do much since I had no packages or port installation capability. I plan to give it another try after -RELEASE and spend more time with it. Right now I am slogging through a "why did I let them convince me to use 'stage 1'" gentoo x86_64 install. I'm sure linux will work well for me on this system but after several years of FreeBSD use Linux feels like a wet pair of socks...yuck... -Will > -----Original Message----- > From: Adriaan de Groot [mailto:adridg@cs.kun.nl] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:25 PM > To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org > Cc: Michael J. Pelletier > Subject: Re: AMD64 support in 5.x versions > > > On Tuesday 06 January 2004 20:57, Michael J. Pelletier wrote: > > I was looking through the pages for 5.1 etc. I did not see AMD64 > > listed...Do you guys support AMD64 on the 5.x? > > 5.x on the AMD64, yes. It is listed as a Tier-1 platform main > page. Actually, > 4.x will run on it too as if it was a very fast i386 machine. > There are > bootable snapshots available, I think - see the archives of > this list. Do > note that not everything works perfectly - there is no i386 > FBSD executable > support, so you will need to recompile everything. There is no Linux > executable support. xpdf doesn't work. gcl and cmucl don't > work. Lots of > other ports have secret i386 or other nonportable > assumptions, and may not > compile. > > -- > pub 1024D/FEA2A3FE 2002-06-18 Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org> > If the door is ajar, can we fill it with door-jamb? >home | help
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