From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 11:46:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2722916A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:46:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE6243F85 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:46:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9SJk6JC050626; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:46:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h9SJk5Nv050625; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:46:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:46:05 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Robert Cousins Message-ID: <20031028194605.GA50559@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Timing of Amd64 & FreeBSD 5.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:46:08 -0000 On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:18:38AM -0800, Robert Cousins wrote: > Does anyone have a good estimate of when 5.2 will be released? > Checking the Todo list shows that things are still a goodly ways off. > > Also, at the fast rate at which AMD64 is maturing, how long before > it will be essentially as feature rich and port rich as i386? It is pretty close today. The largest things missing that a user may notice are SMP support (don't matter to Athlon64 users), Linux AMD64 compatability (not too many commercial Linux AMD64 apps at this time), complete FreeBSD/i386 compatability, complete Linux i386 compatability. Over the past month, FreeBSD/AMD64 has been more stable than FreeBSD/i386. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)