Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 21:45:54 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: some questions about 32 bit / 64 bit Message-ID: <20090403184554.GZ31897@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <1238778425.65025.35.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <d825e0270904030403v278a15ffkcc53f71408a605fe@mail.gmail.com> <gr50cu$4vv$1@ger.gmane.org> <1238778425.65025.35.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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--+OlyQ4X911b40MMu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 12:07:05PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:45 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > > Harald Servat wrote: > >=20 > > > My first issue is, I'm currently working with Linux and I'm plannin= g to > > > switch to FreeBSD 7.1, but I don't know if switch to 32 or 64 bit (i.= e., > > > i386 or amd64). If I switch to the 32 bit version, which is the memor= y limit > >=20 > >=20 > > On a server, switch to 64 bit. > >=20 > > On a desktop machime, go with 32-bit. You will only be able to address > > slightly over 3 GB no matter which graphics card you use but on the > > other hand you'll have better supported drivers and 3rd party software. >=20 > All of our drm drivers are safe on amd64. The only thing you get from > 32bit is the ability to run the Nvidia blob. If you are trying to do > emmulated things like play linux/windows games, then 32bit might be > needed, but for normal use graphics isn't a reason not to use amd64. In fact, I committed the missed bits required for wine/i386 on amd64, several days ago. We did tested that wine and mplayer+win32 codecs work. >=20 > FreeBSD balrog.2hip.net 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #13 r190402M: > Tue Mar 24 22:41:47 CDT 2009 > rnoland@balrog.2hip.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BALROG amd64 >=20 > robert. >=20 > --=20 > Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> > FreeBSD --+OlyQ4X911b40MMu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAknWWWIACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4gq0wCfVI2CuclbATSCFKJC32atnA0c aPUAoJnIwiW8bvOwCNSiFDE0IrTsFWUa =+mQO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+OlyQ4X911b40MMu--
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