On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Xinform3n <xinfor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Don't think xeons ever supported ia64. > > That's true... > I confused Intel 64 instructions. EMT64 ? > Anyway, OpenBSD amd64 won't work on this type of CPU, right ? >
I used to run OpenBSD/amd64 firewalls on machines that had Xeons with early EM64T support (actually IBM servers). One caveat was that Intel didn't support the NX bit that is used by W^X and the non-executable stack on OpenBSD/amd64. Another problem was that most people were running i386, even on amd64 hardware, at this point because they didn't trust the performance, stability etc. of this platform. Reyk
