From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 21:27:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F7237B401; Thu, 15 May 2003 21:27:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2913F43FA3; Thu, 15 May 2003 21:27:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (athlon.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.3]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4G4RHwk070924; Thu, 15 May 2003 21:27:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4G4RHml002223; Thu, 15 May 2003 21:27:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4G4RHi1002222; Thu, 15 May 2003 21:27:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 21:27:17 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: "Michael J. Pelletier" Message-ID: <20030516042717.GA2132@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <1053046569.f0b2ee7da38a9@mail.mjpelletier.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1053046569.f0b2ee7da38a9@mail.mjpelletier.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick question ia64 vs amd 32/64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 04:27:19 -0000 On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:56:09PM -0400, Michael J. Pelletier wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently doing research into up grading the servers here to a 64 bit > architecture. I have a couple of questions: > > 1) Which architecture is currently supported more Intel or AMD? > 2) Which architecture will be maturely supported first by FreeBSD? At this time the FreeBSD/ia64 port is ahead of the FreeBSD/amd64 port because the latter has just started. I think that the FreeBSD/amd64 port will mature more quickly due to various reasons, of which one you mention below. When and how amd64 will surpass ia64 is basicly an unknown and it may not happen at all. > I seemed to find more hardware companies supporting AMD than Intel > with respect > to motherboard availability. > In your option which architecture is better and why? I doubt your business needs are served with my opinion on this matter. I also don't think that my definition of better is compatible with the use of better in your question. Hence: the answer is left as an exercise to the reader (an exercise in speculation :-) HTH, -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net