AMD64 support in 5.x versions

[Michael J. Pelletier]

Please let me know if this gets fixed. I am just purchased the Tyan board. It
also has the Broadcom 10/100/1000 NICs builtin....

I too have been using FreeBSD since 2.0 and I am not looking forward to using
anything else.


Thanks,
Michael

Quoting Will Saxon <WillS at housing.ufl.edu>:

> 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?
> >
>


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