From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 7 03:27:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C39B16A4CF for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 03:27:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from host220.ipowerweb.com (host220.ipowerweb.com [66.235.203.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B611F43D46 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 03:27:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ara@avvali.com) Received: (qmail 31989 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2004 03:27:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO home739bf1d748) (69.193.89.19) by 0 with SMTP; 7 Sep 2004 03:27:23 -0000 From: "Ara Avvali" To: Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:27:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcSUiqQJc9nC6uJ2TwCpU2gmgf2sSQ== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-Id: <20040907032749.B611F43D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: AMD 64 and 4.10. will they work? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ara@avvali.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 03:27:50 -0000 I have checked on site and what I can see that 5 is the one which actually supports athlon 64 processors. But what I am wondering if there is anyway to run it under 4.10 since we are looking for stable series. I mean is it possible to run 4.10 under AMD64 and if it is, do I get benefit from speed improvements over 32 bit processors or the only way to get a true 64bit is 5 series Thank you for help