From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 13:06:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E3AE16A400 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 13:06:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB9513C45D for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 13:06:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp66-157.lns10.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.66.157]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l56D6rpm064610 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:36:53 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:36:48 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <86ps49l5pc.fsf@dwp.des.no> <18022.43800.708483.739950@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <18022.43800.708483.739950@jerusalem.litteratus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart19374455.bpYrpaiuoC"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200706062236.49074.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.312 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Robert Huff Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:06:57 -0000 --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--