amd ports

eoghan eoghanj at gmail.com
Wed Sep 20 13:04:37 PDT 2006


On 20 Sep 2006, at 17:51, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:19 AM, eoghan wrote:
>> Just a general question about the ports for freebsd. I am now  
>> running 6.1 on amd64. Got most of what I need, but noticed that  
>> some ports are only i386 - like the flock browser and skype.  
>> Obviously I can live without these but was just wondering if there  
>> is a place I could check to see whether these would be available  
>> for amd in the future?
>
> Certainly.  The best place would be with the port maintainer, if  
> any is listed, and with the project-specific mailing list,  
> webforum, original developer(s), or whatever.  The latter may be  
> more helpful, as not all port maintainers may have access to AMD64/ 
> EM64T hardware.

Ok thanks for the info everyone.
Eoghan



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