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!
/Alexander
