Hammer/x86-64/amd64 kernel support..

Narvi narvi at haldjas.folklore.ee
Thu Apr 10 09:46:18 PDT 2003


On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Attila Nagy wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > > In case anybody is interested:
> > Great news!
> >
> > > CPU: AMD ClawHammer(tm) (3.14-MHz Hammer-class CPU)
> > Shouldn't we (the FreeBSD users, the community) step up to ensure that
> > Peter will get a faster Hammer from AMD? :)
>
> I was wondering if anybody would notice. :-)  It's a pre-alpha machine and
> I'm not allowed to talk about speed.  The real numbers were there, but I
> figured pi was more interesting.  I will say though, that I'm mighty
> impressed with it, particularly given that it was a prototype cpu.  It
> does run FreeBSD/i386 very nicely.
>

Bochs is supposed to have x86-64 support these days - would freebsd boot
under it?

> Cheers,
> -Peter
> --
> Peter Wemm - peter at wemm.org; peter at FreeBSD.org; peter at yahoo-inc.com
> "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
>



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