From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 19:48:58 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 A340E37B401 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 19:48:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net (sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net [65.242.152.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00DC643FAF for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 19:48:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpb@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net) Received: from sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net (localhost.v6.thrupoint.net [127.0.0.1]) by sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E174CF9 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 22:48:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jpb@localhost)h4G2mvdk025144 for freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 22:48:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 22:48:57 -0400 From: Jim Brown To: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20030516024857.GB25123@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org References: <1053046569.f0b2ee7da38a9@mail.mjpelletier.com> <20030516013941.GA38966@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030516013941.GA38966@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: Quick question ia64 vs amd 32/64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list 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 02:48:59 -0000 * David O'Brien [2003-05-15 21:40]: > 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) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ia64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ia64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > You're probably better off getting infrom from Gartner or Giga. They track stuff like that... jpb ===