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Cc: Ebbe Hjorth <ebbe.hjorth@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0: which distribution
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On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> the only reason that people use FreeBSD/i386 on 64-bit processors is that
> some binary-only drivers are only availaboe for i386.

what kind of drivers would be missing for the amd64 distribution ???