Opteron support?

[David Leimbach]

I am considering replacing my Athlon-MP box sometime in the hopefully 
near future
with an SMP Opteron.  I have work-related reasons for wanting to do 
this early anyway
but I was curious as to the status of Opteron in CURRENT.

If its not quite fully AMD64 bit ready would it be useful to have a 
person who
could test and maybe contribute some code back?  I've been working on 
Opteron
AMD preview hardware at work for some time now with SuSE United Linux 
Enterprise Server
and they have done an incredible job providing the ability to compile 
and run either
64bit or 32bit binaries on their 64bit OS.

Does anyone have experience with this CPU?  I have seen the Opteron bug 
list and its fairly lengthy and I will probably wait for a corrected 
CPU if I can before I get
my new system.

Anyway... just changing hardware in the future and thinking I might be 
of some use here.

Let me know,

Dave Leimbach