FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 on Nehelem Xeon?

[Ivan Voras]

On 23 January 2010 01:14, Nerius Landys <nlandys at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There probably are some. If you are only interested in FreeBSD ports, you
>> can make a list of which ports you need and then inspect their Makefiles to
>> see if there's a flag disabling them on the amd64 architecture.
>
> OK thanks.  Could you give me an example of a port that is disabled on
> 64 bit and tell me what I will find in the Makefile, so I can look for
> it on other ports?

emulators/wine:

ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386

>> Additional information for Nehalems is that you should stick to the more
>> widely available models - the 4 core+HTT ones. Some of the more exotic ones
>> (6 core) might have problems with ULE and topology guesswork.
>
> The L5506 is a 4 core model without Turbo Boost and without Hyper
> Threading.  It's a power-efficient model.  Think that'll be OK?
> http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=40712

Yes.