i386 on AMD64 architecture
Micah
micahjon at ywave.com
Sun Sep 25 13:40:45 PDT 2005
Graham North wrote:
> It is my understanding that the AMD 64 family supports 32-bit i386 code
> completely...can someone confirm this.
>
> I would like to stay with 32 bit for the time being but run it on a new
> MB using an AMD64 architecture. Should I therefore be simply installing
> an i386 iso as though it is on an Intel machine? Will the i386 iso then
> have full support for AMD specific drivers such as the k8t800? I
> noticed from this link
> http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html THAT the the
> VIA K8T800 and K8T890 seem to be reasonably supported whereas not many
> other current AMD Northbridges are (note however that this support is
> for AMD64 iso).
>
> Any pearls of wisdom much appreciated. No I do not wish to install as 64
> bit at this time...
> Thanks, Graham/
>
You'll probably get a lot of responses on this one. I'm currently
running the i386 FreeBSD on an Ahtlon 64 as my desktop. I also have the
64 bit installed on a seperate partition to experiment with. I have an
A8V-E mobo that has the K8T890. Works just fine except an occasional
glitch while booting freezes the system. I've read it's an ACPI thing,
but since I rarely reboot I've not bothered to disable ACPI.
Later,
Micah
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