On 2008 Mar 26 (Wed) at 10:23:56 +0100 (+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.
wpi works in amd64 mode, no need to worry about that :). > > Thank you for your replies! > > /Alexander > -- Keep grandma off the streets -- legalize bingo.
