Re: Progress with usability of AMD64

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Vivek Khera wrote:

VK>
VK> On Sep 27, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Greg Black wrote:
VK>
VK> > Since we're close to a new release, I'm wondering what experience people
VK> > have had recently with running in 64-bit mode. Are most of those broken
VK> > ports now fixed? Or is there some magic that allows building of just
VK> > the broken ones in 32-bit mode such that they'll run on a 64-bit box?
VK>
VK> In practice, I have exactly one port I need in 64-bit that is not
VK> functional, and that is because it is a binary-only distribution of the
VK> Adaptec command line utility. No other software I've tried has failed to
VK> build or run on 6.2/amd64.


VK> My list of software is purely server stuff; I
VK> don't use any FreeBSD desktops.

It seems to be the key point here.

I'm thinking about giving a try for the following scheme for my development
desktop at work:

amd64 machine with servers' ports built inside (postgresql-server, apache, etc)
with i386 jail with desktop applications (xorg, firefox/nspluginwrappers, MUA,
you name it...)

ENOTIME so far...

Sincerely,
D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer: marck@xxxxxxxxxxx ]
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