From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 16 09:33:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E3F1065670 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:33:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from warenostrum@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f167.google.com (mail-fx0-f167.google.com [209.85.220.167]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13078FC08 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:33:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from warenostrum@gmail.com) Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so304513fxm.43 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:33:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=FIJvbqv2fiCnFVhBqbHfjOTpNDdmYi+n9t8eNgH7vv0=; b=R9y8b0Y7IUM1fIfPZJfohF6f7hjpzWuONbm3LuxLrULv6rq5P9ayKtYRAD62MjwIh0 xupmEx1nEeEqtkFs9vejggg0o5G3bEvL/CTkm6Gd6JiV2HQPnJtOi2Ak5PPIQun5QT1A KdlN1UNXlLlGc2BAM1eKtfkIELlnq+vV2fetk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=j5KmZRpGZg4zZVdkHQeeh73/Z+xmvzKf9VvDqRH78kfXERiF08gHX+yK3sg5pxvWFF aPqq5ctGyuBNSA7hTzQsTZLfre2yZNa/kI7qz1higr8nYoUaBid5bsh4DYgmchPgeNyK YaRj9LL+PaShjL649MyVusMeWDHgjnWdzgCD4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.53.143 with SMTP id m15mr1043704bkg.119.1239873010821; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:10:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:10:10 +0200 Message-ID: From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=2E_Juli=E1n_Rodr=EDguez?= To: questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Question about amd64 tier1 status. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:33:16 -0000 Hi, I=B4m a FreeBSD user from 4.0 version to Current (i386 arch). I've recently switched to a amd64 machine and consecuently to the amd64 version of the OS. You claim the amd64 version enjoys "Tier 1 Status", but in the page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.= html under the point "12.2 Tier 1: Fully Supported Architectures" i read: "Tier 1 architectures are expected to be fully supported by the ports system. All the ports should build on a Tier 1 platform, or have the appropriate filters to prevent the inappropriate ones from building there. The packaging system must support all Tier 1 architectures. To ensure an architecture's Tier 1 status, proponents of that architecture must show that all relevant packages can be built on that platform." At this moment is not possible to run Wine on a amd64 version of Freebsd du= e to problems of the amd64 kernel handling segment registers, ldt segments or something like that (too technical for m= e to explain right but the point is that it doesn=B4t work). No matter which way you try (port, 32 bit package, etc) there is no report of success as far as i know. My question is: "Is Wine a non relevant port (I don't thik so) or the amd64 version of FreeBSD doesn't meet the requirements to be considered a Tier 1 Architecture ?" Hope you will excuse my poor english. Greetings and best wishes. Juli=E1n Rodr=EDguez.