Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Boris Spirialitious wrote:
--- Boris Spirialitious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote:
When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have
4.9.
is supported? Or 4.11 better? I can't use 5.x.
Well, AMD64 support as a tier-1 platform only came in with 5.x, so you're S.O.L. if you have to use a 4.x release version.
Will a i386 disk boot on opteron system? Can I use same disk image for intel and amd MBs? Any big problems?
You can generally run AMD64 machines in IA32 mode
--
but what would be the point? All you get then is a machine that
costs
more than an equivalent IA32 box and that probably performs worse.
Actually due to the onboard memory controller it performs significantly better
than like-priced chips from intel.
I completely agree with you, Ken, but I had the feeling that this fellow was flamebaiting me, and I didn't want to subject everyone to that. I was right to begin with: there is some gain from having the chip, there is more gain if you have the better instruction set. If folks need to know more, like I *know* you have, you read one of the many architectural sites on the web.
Ken
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