some questions about 32 bit / 64 bit

[Kostik Belousov]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 12:07:05PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:45 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> > Harald Servat wrote:
> > 
> > >   My first issue is, I'm currently working with Linux and I'm planning to
> > > switch to FreeBSD 7.1, but I don't know if switch to 32 or 64 bit (i.e.,
> > > i386 or amd64). If I switch to the 32 bit version, which is the memory limit
> > 
> > 
> > On a server, switch to 64 bit.
> > 
> > On a desktop machime, go with 32-bit. You will only be able to address
> > slightly over 3 GB no matter which graphics card you use but on the
> > other hand you'll have better supported drivers and 3rd party software.
> 
> All of our drm drivers are safe on amd64.  The only thing you get from
> 32bit is the ability to run the Nvidia blob.  If you are trying to do
> emmulated things like play linux/windows games, then 32bit might be
> needed, but for normal use graphics isn't a reason not to use amd64.
In fact, I committed the missed bits required for wine/i386 on amd64,
several days ago. We did tested that wine and mplayer+win32 codecs
work.

> 
> FreeBSD balrog.2hip.net 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #13 r190402M:
> Tue Mar 24 22:41:47 CDT 2009
> rnoland at balrog.2hip.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BALROG  amd64
> 
> robert.
> 
> -- 
> Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
> FreeBSD


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