From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 28 19:57:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1005A16A417 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:57:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E7B413C455 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:57:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l8SJOf5p090073; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:24:42 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:24:41 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Vivek Khera In-Reply-To: <69AF611A-3E27-49B9-A81F-033A94D796E4@khera.org> Message-ID: <20070928232008.K89977@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <69AF611A-3E27-49B9-A81F-033A94D796E4@khera.org> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 6B691B03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (woozle.rinet.ru [0.0.0.0]); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:24:42 +0400 (MSD) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Progress with usability of AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:57:59 -0000 On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Vivek Khera wrote: VK> VK> On Sep 27, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Greg Black wrote: VK> VK> > Since we're close to a new release, I'm wondering what experience people VK> > have had recently with running in 64-bit mode. Are most of those broken VK> > ports now fixed? Or is there some magic that allows building of just VK> > the broken ones in 32-bit mode such that they'll run on a 64-bit box? VK> VK> In practice, I have exactly one port I need in 64-bit that is not VK> functional, and that is because it is a binary-only distribution of the VK> Adaptec command line utility. No other software I've tried has failed to VK> build or run on 6.2/amd64. VK> My list of software is purely server stuff; I VK> don't use any FreeBSD desktops. It seems to be the key point here. I'm thinking about giving a try for the following scheme for my development desktop at work: amd64 machine with servers' ports built inside (postgresql-server, apache, etc) with i386 jail with desktop applications (xorg, firefox/nspluginwrappers, MUA, you name it...) ENOTIME so far... Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------