Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:22:26 +1000 From: Greg Black <freebsd@mail.gbch.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Progress with usability of AMD64 Message-ID: <nospam-1190938946.94875@joker.gbch.net>
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When I first did an AMD64 install on my then-new 64-bit hardware, I was happy with the way FreeBSD itself behaved, but seriously hampered by the huge number of ports that were marked broken for 64-bit architectures at that time. Eventually, I just re-installed as i386 and went on with my life. Since we're close to a new release, I'm wondering what experience people have had recently with running in 64-bit mode. Are most of those broken ports now fixed? Or is there some magic that allows building of just the broken ones in 32-bit mode such that they'll run on a 64-bit box? Or is it viable to build those ports on a 32-bit i386 and expect them to just run on the AMD64? Or is there some other solution (other than doing without the broken stuff)? Since this is not strictly on topic for this list, perhaps people could reply direct to me. If I get some interesting information, I'll post a summary here in a short while. Greg
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