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Date:      Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:39:52 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386
Message-ID:  <18022.43800.708483.739950@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <86ps49l5pc.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <86ps49l5pc.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav writes:

>  > In practice there's (almost) only one reason not to run
>  > FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64-capable hardware:  If you depend
>  > on a certain piece of software which is known not to run
>  > correctly in 64bit mode.  Fortunately those are not many.
>  
>  The only one I can think of (for a desktop) is the Flash plugin.

	The last time I looked - a couple of months ago - I believe
mplayer was also not yet there.


				Robert Huff



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