On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:23:56AM +0100, Alexander Hall wrote:
> Matthew Szudzik wrote
>>> I have two computers I'm considering going amd64 on:
>>>
>>> 1. My Thinkpad X61s (1GB RAM)
>>
>> It appears that the wireless driver your Thinkpad requires
>>
>>> wpi0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG" rev 0x02: apic
>>> 2
>>
>> is not supported in OpenBSD/amd64. See
>>
>> http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html
>
> and
>
>> Another thing to keep in mind is that there are some OpenBSD packages
>> and ports that only run on i386. In particular, any software that
>> requires Linux emulation (such as the opera-flashplugin) will not run on
>> amd64.
>
> These are important issues that I did not think of. I will probably not
> need java on our server but it seems I could compile jdk1.6 and 1.7
> natively if so. I would prefer not running linux blobs on the server
> anyway... :-)
>
> All in all, I now aim to run amd64 on the server but the wireless issue
> (which I assume is correct, though I have not verified it), will prevent me
> from running it on the laptop.
>
> Thank you for your replies!
I have an x61s, it dual boots i386 and amd64. Both works fine. So in
that case don't worry about device support. :)
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