Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:36:48 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 Message-ID: <200706062236.49074.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <18022.43800.708483.739950@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <86ps49l5pc.fsf@dwp.des.no> <18022.43800.708483.739950@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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--nextPart19374455.bpYrpaiuoC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 06 June 2007 22:09, Robert Huff wrote: > 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. mplayer works fine, however a lot of the popular codecs are from the=20 win32-codecs port and that is bound to a 32bit CPU. Something like the nspluginwrapper could probably be written, but..=20 urgh :) Hopefully someone will come out with win64-codecs soon ;) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart19374455.bpYrpaiuoC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGZrFp5ZPcIHs/zowRAshEAJwL/BxlrvgNXem8MprA0+byRVJAhwCdE3b3 NeBm4e3/twLhd6axyBk9Zh4= =zA+C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart19374455.bpYrpaiuoC--
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