Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:50:36 -0500 From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question Message-ID: <20050318135036.clb71qvg0o0k8w8o@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> In-Reply-To: <423B1135.30302@chuckr.org> References: <20050318172739.61631.qmail@web90208.mail.scd.yahoo.com> <423B1135.30302@chuckr.org>
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Quoting Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>: > Boris Spirialitious wrote: >> --- Boris Spirialitious <hardcodeharry@yahoo.com> >> wrote: >> >>> --- Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris >>>> Spirialitious wrote: >>>> >>>>> When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have >>>> >>>> 4.9. >>>>> is supported? Or 4.11 better? I can't use 5.x. >>>> >>>> Well, AMD64 support as a tier-1 platform only came >>>> in with 5.x, so >>>> you're S.O.L. if you have to use a 4.x release >>>> version. >>>>> Will a i386 disk boot on opteron system? Can I >>>>> use same disk image for intel and amd MBs? Any >>>>> big problems? >>>> >>>> You can generally run AMD64 machines in IA32 mode >>> >>> -- >>> >>>> but what would be >>>> the point? All you get then is a machine that >>> >>> costs >>> >>>> more than an >>>> equivalent IA32 box and that probably performs >>>> worse. Actually due to the onboard memory controller it performs significantly better than like-priced chips from intel. Ken
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