On Nov 16, 10:05am, luca.sironi@gmail.com (Luca Sironi) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Moving from AMD x86 to AMD64?

| 2005/11/16, Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>:
| > |
| > | Do we have Linux compatibility for AMD64?
| >
| > We do in -current, but it is very new.
| >
| 
| a couple of questions..
| 1) whenever will work (i hope very soon) will be eventually backported
| to 3.x branches
| or will be future 4.x ?

I don't know if it will be backported to 3.0, but it will be in 4.0

| Is compat_linux for amd64 a new, relevant, feature ?
| 2) as Space Case was asking is it possible to run the normal i386 port
| on and amd64 ?

Yes. It will run everything except programs that have SA on, until that
is fixed.

| It will be useful in case of jdk, flash, openoffice and so on..
| There are plenty of packages that ask for netbsd-386 ..

Indeed.

christos