various rants about 7-currnet on AMD64

[Astrodog]

First, i386 arches do not properly support 4GB of memory without PAE.
The set of issues you will encounter without dealing with this first
is somewhat unpredictable... though performance issues, broken
hardware, etc is certainly possible.

The ports issue is known. You might be interested in lookup up 32-bit
compat on FreeBSD.

The CPUTYPE is amd64 because at the time the instruction set was
invented, and FreeBSD began supporting it, Intel had no plans to offer
support for it, it was an AMD-only offering. Intel decided to support
it, *after* the project did all of the fun work involved in supporting
it, including naming everything amd64.

AMD64 as an arch isn't always suitable for systems. Its load specific.

In as far as nvidia.ko, and nv are concerned, I've run both of them
without problems, on a wide range of hardware. You do need to make
sure they're binding, instead of vesa, though. (Simply replace "vesa"
with "nv" or "nvidia" in your xorg.conf)