AMD64 support in 5.x versions

[Will Saxon]

I downloaded the 5.2-RC2 AMD64 miniinst ISO to try on a MSI K8T800 based dual opteron system today. I found that the system panicked when I used ACPI, and without ACPI the onboard broadcom ethernet is not initialized correctly (something about return type/code of 6 I believe). This may or may not be AMD64 related.

It does boot multi user w/o acpi on my system, I can log in and do some things, but without network support I was not able to do much since I had no packages or port installation capability.

I plan to give it another try after -RELEASE and spend more time with it. Right now I am slogging through a "why did I let them convince me to use 'stage 1'" gentoo x86_64 install. I'm sure linux will work well for me on this system but after several years of FreeBSD use Linux feels like a wet pair of socks...yuck...

-Will

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adriaan de Groot [mailto:adridg at cs.kun.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:25 PM
> To: freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
> Cc: Michael J. Pelletier
> Subject: Re: AMD64 support in 5.x versions
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 06 January 2004 20:57, Michael J. Pelletier wrote:
> > I was looking through the pages for 5.1 etc. I did not see AMD64
> > listed...Do you guys support AMD64 on the 5.x?
> 
> 5.x on the AMD64, yes. It is listed as a Tier-1 platform main 
> page. Actually, 
> 4.x will run on it too as if it was a very fast i386 machine. 
> There are 
> bootable snapshots available, I think - see the archives of 
> this list. Do 
> note that not everything works perfectly - there is no i386 
> FBSD executable 
> support, so you will need to recompile everything. There is no Linux 
> executable support. xpdf doesn't work. gcl and cmucl don't 
> work. Lots of 
> other ports have secret i386 or other nonportable 
> assumptions, and may not 
> compile.
> 
> -- 
> pub  1024D/FEA2A3FE 2002-06-18 Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org>
>             If the door is ajar, can we fill it with door-jamb?
>