Timing of Amd64 & FreeBSD 5.2

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:18:38AM -0800, Robert Cousins wrote:
> Does anyone have a good estimate of when 5.2 will be released?
> Checking the Todo list shows that things are still a goodly ways off.
> 
> Also, at the fast rate at which AMD64 is maturing, how long before
> it will be essentially as feature rich and port rich as i386?

It is pretty close today.

The largest things missing that a user may notice are SMP support (don't
matter to Athlon64 users), Linux AMD64 compatability (not too many
commercial Linux AMD64 apps at this time), complete FreeBSD/i386
compatability, complete Linux i386 compatability.

Over the past month, FreeBSD/AMD64 has been more stable than
FreeBSD/i386.
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)