Dual Opteron Server with -STABLE ...

David Rhodus drhodus at catpa.com
Wed Oct 8 19:06:08 PDT 2003


On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 09:45 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> FreeBSD 4.x has no support for running on Opterons in 64-bit mode, and
> probably never will.
FreeBSD may not but DragonFly will.
> 5.x does have some support but I have the impression it is not quite
> production-quality yet.
Actually I've been running a amd64 as a desktop for 2 months now and
only 1 panic.
>
> If you want to run -STABLE on Opterons right now it would have to run
> in 32-bit mode, and thus not be much different from running on Xeons.
Perhaps holding out would be a better option if you could...

-DR



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