Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:24:41 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Progress with usability of AMD64 Message-ID: <20070928232008.K89977@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <69AF611A-3E27-49B9-A81F-033A94D796E4@khera.org> References: <nospam-1190938946.94875@joker.gbch.net> <69AF611A-3E27-49B9-A81F-033A94D796E4@khera.org>
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Vivek Khera wrote: VK> VK> On Sep 27, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Greg Black wrote: VK> VK> > Since we're close to a new release, I'm wondering what experience people VK> > have had recently with running in 64-bit mode. Are most of those broken VK> > ports now fixed? Or is there some magic that allows building of just VK> > the broken ones in 32-bit mode such that they'll run on a 64-bit box? VK> VK> In practice, I have exactly one port I need in 64-bit that is not VK> functional, and that is because it is a binary-only distribution of the VK> Adaptec command line utility. No other software I've tried has failed to VK> build or run on 6.2/amd64. VK> My list of software is purely server stuff; I VK> don't use any FreeBSD desktops. It seems to be the key point here. I'm thinking about giving a try for the following scheme for my development desktop at work: amd64 machine with servers' ports built inside (postgresql-server, apache, etc) with i386 jail with desktop applications (xorg, firefox/nspluginwrappers, MUA, you name it...) ENOTIME so far... Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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