Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:19:31 -0400 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Progress with usability of AMD64 Message-ID: <69AF611A-3E27-49B9-A81F-033A94D796E4@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <nospam-1190938946.94875@joker.gbch.net> References: <nospam-1190938946.94875@joker.gbch.net>
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On Sep 27, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Greg Black wrote: > Since we're close to a new release, I'm wondering what experience > people > have had recently with running in 64-bit mode. Are most of those > broken > ports now fixed? Or is there some magic that allows building of just > the broken ones in 32-bit mode such that they'll run on a 64-bit box? In practice, I have exactly one port I need in 64-bit that is not functional, and that is because it is a binary-only distribution of the Adaptec command line utility. No other software I've tried has failed to build or run on 6.2/amd64. My list of software is purely server stuff; I don't use any FreeBSD desktops.
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