Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:28:03 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: How much better are 64 but platforms Message-ID: <20031030232802.GA31604@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20031030225442.K367@aqua.lan.palfreman.com> References: <3FA00634.6000002@potentialtech.com> <20031030001309.GA19454@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20031030220811.V367@aqua.lan.palfreman.com> <20031030223708.GA31228@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20031030225442.K367@aqua.lan.palfreman.com>
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--bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:21:01PM +0000, William Palfreman wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > > > I was wondering how advanced the plans are to bring native AMD64 into > > > FreeBSD? Will it get into 5.x, or will be have to wait for 6-CURRENT? > > > > FreeBSD 5.x has supported amd64 for months. >=20 > The release notes don't list it (ia64 they do), but AMD64 is listed in > the Tier 2 architectures along with PowerPC and ia64 (again). I suppose > I was wondering if AMD64 was going to be a Tier 1 release during the > 5-STABLE period? It's just it looks like there are going to be a > flood of these machines about quite soon :-) Probably. There's a lot of developer attention focused on the amd64 port (Peter Wemm uses it as his primary desktop, etc). It's already much more stable under load than FreeBSD/ia64, which has severe stability problems right now. Kris --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/oZ6CWry0BWjoQKURAmioAJkB+eTxyfb2Ti83FosXywqIiwQ3ZACeIr7+ VWVt4GqGFQhV5/P+6ltZ2zk= =bWTt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn--
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