Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:10:57 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one. Message-ID: <20070628011057.5a0d90b5@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20070627145452.ytifppt70oc480s8@intranet.unixmania.com> References: <20070627145452.ytifppt70oc480s8@intranet.unixmania.com>
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:54:52 -0500 eculp@unixmania.com wrote: > I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm) (1333.39-MHz > 686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor > 3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily > kernel with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the > old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit > apps. Are you sure about that? there are few compelling reasons to go to 64-bit, if you already have a working system. As far as performance is concerned, it may go either way. > Right now all is > working fine with todays, sources and kernel except they are compiled > for Intel. They are compiled for i386; Intel and AMD both produce CPUs for both platforms.
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