FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

[Kenneth Culver]

Quoting Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org>:

> Boris Spirialitious wrote:
>> --- Boris Spirialitious <hardcodeharry at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> --- Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris
>>>> Spirialitious wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have
>>>>
>>>> 4.9.
>>>>> is supported? Or 4.11 better? I can't use 5.x.
>>>>
>>>> Well, AMD64 support as a tier-1 platform only came
>>>> in with 5.x, so
>>>> you're S.O.L. if you have to use a 4.x release
>>>> version.
>>>>> Will a i386 disk boot on opteron system? Can I
>>>>> use same disk image for intel and amd MBs? Any
>>>>> big problems?
>>>>
>>>> You can generally run AMD64 machines in IA32 mode
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>> but what would be
>>>> the point? All you get then is a machine that
>>>
>>> costs
>>>
>>>> more than an
>>>> equivalent IA32 box and that probably performs
>>>> worse.

Actually due to the onboard memory controller it performs significantly better
than like-priced chips from intel.

Ken