Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:43:54 -0500 From: "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu> To: "Adriaan de Groot" <adridg@cs.kun.nl>, <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Cc: "Michael J. Pelletier" <mjpelletier@mjpelletier.com> Subject: RE: AMD64 support in 5.x versions Message-ID: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8CBBE06@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>
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I downloaded the 5.2-RC2 AMD64 miniinst ISO to try on a MSI K8T800 based = dual opteron system today. I found that the system panicked when I used = ACPI, and without ACPI the onboard broadcom ethernet is not initialized = correctly (something about return type/code of 6 I believe). This may or = may not be AMD64 related. It does boot multi user w/o acpi on my system, I can log in and do some = things, but without network support I was not able to do much since I = had no packages or port installation capability. I plan to give it another try after -RELEASE and spend more time with = it. Right now I am slogging through a "why did I let them convince me to = use 'stage 1'" gentoo x86_64 install. I'm sure linux will work well for = me on this system but after several years of FreeBSD use Linux feels = like a wet pair of socks...yuck... -Will > -----Original Message----- > From: Adriaan de Groot [mailto:adridg@cs.kun.nl] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:25 PM > To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org > Cc: Michael J. Pelletier > Subject: Re: AMD64 support in 5.x versions >=20 >=20 > On Tuesday 06 January 2004 20:57, Michael J. Pelletier wrote: > > I was looking through the pages for 5.1 etc. I did not see AMD64 > > listed...Do you guys support AMD64 on the 5.x? >=20 > 5.x on the AMD64, yes. It is listed as a Tier-1 platform main=20 > page. Actually,=20 > 4.x will run on it too as if it was a very fast i386 machine.=20 > There are=20 > bootable snapshots available, I think - see the archives of=20 > this list. Do=20 > note that not everything works perfectly - there is no i386=20 > FBSD executable=20 > support, so you will need to recompile everything. There is no Linux=20 > executable support. xpdf doesn't work. gcl and cmucl don't=20 > work. Lots of=20 > other ports have secret i386 or other nonportable=20 > assumptions, and may not=20 > compile. >=20 > --=20 > pub 1024D/FEA2A3FE 2002-06-18 Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org> > If the door is ajar, can we fill it with door-jamb? >=20
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