CPU update

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 04 March 2004 02:04 am, Mark Dixon wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 23:09, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 March 2004 06:02 pm, Mark wrote:
> > > Dear Sirs:
> > >
> > > I compiled my FreeBSD 4.7R for an AMD XP-2000. If I upgrade to an AMD
> > > 64 3200, will my OS still run? The AMD 64 is 32-bit downwards
> > > compatible.
> >
> > Yes.  FreeBSD 5.x also supports amd64 natively.
>
> The next question is then can you rebuild world and ports for amd64, reboot
> and run in 64bit mode?

You might be able to but you are probably better off just reinstalling to do 
that type of upgrade.

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