From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 6 9:49:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from search.sparks.net (d-207-5-180-136.gwi.net [207.5.180.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55FA037B401 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:49:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by search.sparks.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id AFE9CD983; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:42:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by search.sparks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A067AD982; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:42:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:42:03 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller To: Miguel Mendez Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: allocating memory In-Reply-To: <20020606152458.A81446@energyhq.homeip.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Miguel Mendez wrote: > Except Itanium is nowhere production ready, so you probably need > something else, e.g. sparc or ppc. Mips is also a nice arch to work > with, btw, unfortunately SGI hardware is extremely expensive. Are there any estimates of when freebsd will move to 64 bits on the upcoming sledgehammer CPU from AMD? It's my guess that it will be the first affordable, widely available, 64 bit system out there. The itanium certainly looks like it was a stillbirth, and rumors have Intel working on something more like the sledgehammer. Thanks, --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message