AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Fri Jul 2 08:43:56 PDT 2004


On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:17:35AM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> Quoting Doug White <dwhite at gumbysoft.com>:
> >Me either. -current actually supports running i386 binaries in amd64 mode.
> >Thats one of the processor's features. :-)
>
> >You can't run amd64 binaries when booted into an i386 OS, of course.
>
> Yeah you can run x86 but you cant' go into regular 32 bit mode that's all.

ENOPARSE, can you please restate this?

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