From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 14:54:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2883216A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:54:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pandora.afflictions.org (asylum.afflictions.org [64.7.134.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC3F43D54 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:54:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgerow@afflictions.org) Received: from dementia.afflictions.org (dementia.afflictions.org [172.19.206.56]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pandora.afflictions.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E87578C7C for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:55:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by dementia.afflictions.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AA48C170C3; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:54:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:54:35 -0400 From: Damian Gerow To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040629145435.GP29281@afflictions.org> Mail-Followup-To: current@freebsd.org References: <36u63c$231i65@mxip07a.cluster1.charter.net> <20040629103106.gpw4kwscsg88k0c8@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040629103106.gpw4kwscsg88k0c8@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT on a i386 X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3D7 D901 A53A 1A99 BFD6 E6DF 9F3B 742B C288 9CC9 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: i386->AMD64 upgrade path X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:54:14 -0000 Thus spake Kenneth Culver (culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz) [29/06/04 10:23]: : >What is the state of the AMD64 version of BSD? Other than that im leaning : >toward the 1.7GHz Centrino, but I hear a lot of problems with FreeBSD : >working right with Centrino, is this correct? What are the issues? : > : It runs OK, with some minor nits compared to x86 version. I'm not sure : what the : laptop maker is talking about... but if you boot the x86 version of FreeBSD, : it'll work. I think they meant you can't switch from amd64 to x86 after : already : booting an OS. Apologies for the noob question (and perhaps a slightly-OT post), but I've been debating purchasing an AMD64 machine for about a month now. Aside from being lost in the myriad of available CPUs, I'm lost in the upgrade path. According to the statement above, this means that I can boot, buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, reboot into single-user, installworld, rebuild ports? Will that move me to a 64-bit platform? Or is there some other trickery to this? Would a binary upgrade be a better path?