From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 18:42:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E3F16A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:42:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from daintree.corp.yahoo.com (daintree.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.52.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A302243D45 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:42:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@yahoo-inc.com) Received: by daintree.corp.yahoo.com (Postfix, from userid 2154) id 72F1C881E; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:42:07 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Wemm To: joe mcguckin , Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:42:07 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312181842.07079.peter@wemm.org> Subject: Re: Current Status ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 02:42:08 -0000 On Thursday 18 December 2003 05:32 pm, joe mcguckin wrote: > Hi Folks. > > What's the current status of AMD64? Does FreeBSD run native 64 bit? > How stable is it? Generally its in pretty good shape. We're looking for a formal tier-1 release for 5.2. You can grab the release candidates already. > Is there a preferred motherboard or system vendor? There are none that I know of that we don't run on. However, at this stage, avoid the nVidia nForce based boards like the plague. There is something very funny going on with the APIC on that chipset. I have an Asus SK8N at home and I turn off the IO apic mode in the bios. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5