FYI, I've switched my primary desktop to AMD64.

[Peter Wemm]

Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Friday 17 October 2003 19:17, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > I finally worked up the nerve to commit to eating my own dogfood.  :-)
> 
> Well that's excellent news! It seems the CPUs have also arrived here in .nl, 
> and I'll be getting my devel box (K8V, amd64 3200+, matrox g450) shortly.

Well, my work machine got switched over this evening.  I did something a
little different there though.  I mounted my old machine's hard drive
under /compat so that I can debug the i386 binary support.  Since its
a seperate drive, I can use boot0 to temporarily boot the old drive
and do things like buildworld and get ktraces of identical binaries
in action on a 32 bit system etc.

> > I've been working on getting mozilla-firebird up and running but that is
> > easier said than done because the core infrastructure (nspr, xpcom etc)
> > haven't got official support for amd64 yet.  There are patches in the
> 
> My intention - KDE-FreeBSD core team - is to get KDE in its entirety working 
> as well on amd64 as on x86. 

I ran into trouble with kde3base - it wants to link something like
libxkbfile.a into a shared library.  This is fatal on amd64, but it
seems you can get away with it on i386.

> > fxp0: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xdf00-0xdf3f mem
> > 0xfc800000-0xfc8fffff,0xfc9fe000-0xfc9fefff irq 11 at device 5.0 on pci1
> > fxp0: Ethernet address 00:d0:b7:21:31:94
> 
> I take it this means that the nforce3 integrated nvidia NIC is still not 
> working? This was one of the reasons for me to go with a VIA chipset board.

The K8V has got a nice gigabit ethernet on board...

skc0: <3Com 3C940 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xb000-0xb0ff mem 0xcfa00000-0xcfa03fff irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0
skc0: 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940)
sk0: <Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon> on skc0
sk0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:6e:b3:4c:4b
miibus0: <MII bus> on sk0
e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1000 Gigabit PHY> on miibus0
e1000phy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto

Marvel bought syskonnect.  This is a 3com rebadged version.  Note that 5.1-R
does not recognize this chip so if you boot from the 5.1 release cd, you'll
have to get the updated driver by other means.  (I used one of the many
fxp cards I had laying on my desk).

> > atapci1: <Promise PDC20378 SATA150 controller> port
> > 0xdc00-0xdc7f,0xdf60-0xdf6f,0xde80-0xdebf mem
> > 0xfc9a0000-0xfc9bffff,0xfc9fd000-0xfc9fdfff irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci1
> 
> I think the K8V also uses promise sata, so that ought to go well for me too.

Yes, the same chip.  My work machine is a K8V and its up and running now.

Cheers,
-Peter
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Peter Wemm - peter at wemm.org; peter at FreeBSD.org; peter at yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5