Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:09:57 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4GB RAM with an intel core 2 processor Message-ID: <20080127050957.GB75469@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20080124235857.GD14026@gremlin.foo.is> References: <20080124182710.GC14026@gremlin.foo.is> <4798E015.3050105@samsco.org> <20080124235857.GD14026@gremlin.foo.is>
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:58:57PM +0000, Baldur Gislason wrote: > I wasn't aware that amd64 was the same 64 bit architecture as used by Intel. You can think your processor vendor for intentionally trying to mislead its customers. > Are there any known backwards compatibility issues with running i386 linux > binaries for example if I switch over to amd64? No. However, it sounds like you're using the binary nVidia driver. And nVidia only supports FreeBSD/i386, not FreeBSD/amd64. (search the mailing lists if you want to know why) > Also, could I switch to amd64 by just changing make.conf and doing a > buildworld and buildkernel or would I have to do a binary upgrade or > maybe even a clean install? A clean install really is better. You could do an "upgrade" install to leave your /etc alone. And then reinstall any packages you have installed.
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