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Date:      Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:05:56 -0400
From:      David Rhodus <drhodus@catpa.com>
To:        Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dual Opteron Server with -STABLE ...
Message-ID:  <1E88A64A-F9FD-11D7-B905-000A959B213E@catpa.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031009014552.GA93741@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>

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On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 09:45 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> FreeBSD 4.x has no support for running on Opterons in 64-bit mode, and
> probably never will.
FreeBSD may not but DragonFly will.
> 5.x does have some support but I have the impression it is not quite
> production-quality yet.
Actually I've been running a amd64 as a desktop for 2 months now and
only 1 panic.
>
> If you want to run -STABLE on Opterons right now it would have to run
> in 32-bit mode, and thus not be much different from running on Xeons.
Perhaps holding out would be a better option if you could...

-DR



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