Driver compilation for amd64

[Ivan Voras]

Kostik Belousov wrote:

>> Don't know about that - I've just booted it to the point of sysinstall
>> and quit :) Since it got to sysinstall, I guess it would have kept going.

> Are you sure that you booted amd64 system ? Looks like it was i386
> actually.

No, I looked for 64-bit addresses in dmesg and found them, specifically
because I know WinXP amd64 edition needs ACPI and refuses to boot on qemu.

The "former beastie" boot menu lists boot without ACPI (default) and
with ACPI (choice #2). This is from 6.1-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso.

> I got the weeping from ata driver about unability to allocate interrupts.

I've just repeated the experiment - I can boot FreeBSD AMD64 version in
qemu, it also displays messages like 'acpi0_check: pci0 attached' and
'acpi0_check: ata0 attached' just before sysinstall starts.

It can see and use disks (virtual disks, files in the host file system)
without problems. Maybe something got fixed in qemu?
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