Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:46:05 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Robert Cousins <rec@RCousins.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Timing of Amd64 & FreeBSD 5.2 Message-ID: <20031028194605.GA50559@dragon.nuxi.com>
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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)
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