2009/7/8 Benjamin Huntsman <bhunts...@mail2.cu-portland.edu>: >>> Without this getting into a holy war, what Geoff told me was that the >>> amd64 work was for headless CPU servers, which is only mildly useful >>> to me anyway. >> >>If it was released perhaps somebody would add the missing drivers, who >>knows... >> >>As things stand, we will never know. > > Speaking of the amd64 port, I had thought that Bell Labs was planning on > releasing it at some point in the future, but that it currently wasn't quite > perfect and they didn't want to have to field complaints... I can't say that > I blame them...
My understanding from Geoff was exactly this. But I don't want to speak for him or introduce this as fact. I'm unaware of the exact status at this particular time. > But, it would be nice to see eventually. Are there plans to let the amd64 > port out of the labs at some point in the future? Agreed. > Many thanks! > > -Ben Before my signature, I'd really like to reiterate that I did not bring up amd64 to open a can of worms. -dho
