Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:35:48 -0800 From: "Michael J. Pelletier" <mjpelletier@mjpelletier.com> To: Will Saxon <WillS@housing.ufl.edu> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: RE: AMD64 support in 5.x versions Message-ID: <20040106203548.s0gcg4ssgwsc8cks@www.mjpelletier.com> In-Reply-To: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8CBBE06@bragi.housing.ufl.edu> References: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8CBBE06@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>
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Please let me know if this gets fixed. I am just purchased the Tyan board. It also has the Broadcom 10/100/1000 NICs builtin.... I too have been using FreeBSD since 2.0 and I am not looking forward to using anything else. Thanks, Michael Quoting Will Saxon <WillS@housing.ufl.edu>: > 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? > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
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