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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