Re: amd64 on MacBook Pro 5,5 (mid 2009)?

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On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:40:45PM +0900, ???? wrote:
> I was hoping to install NetBSD on a 7+-year-old MacBook Pro (details
> below), but after reading the following, I'm not so sure.
> "Known to work ... Core2Duo processor (it still crashes, but the amd64 much
> less often than the i386 port)" in _How to install NetBSD on an Apple Macbook
> with Core 2 Duo_.
> https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_install_netbsd_on_an_apple_macbook_with
> _core2duo/
> However the article seems to be somewhat outdated, so I have two
> questions:
> 1) Is amd64, not i386, the best port for this machine?
> 2) Is the latest version (7.0.2) of NetBSD stable on this hardware?
> Details on machine:
> 13-inch, Mid 2009, MacBookPro5,5
> processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (2.53 GHz)
> number of processors: 1; number of cores: 2; secondary cache: 3 MB
> memory 4 GB, 1067 MHz DDR3; bus speed: 1.07 GHz
> 
> Thanks so much.

I heard a claim that bwi (the broadcom wifi driver) won't
work in 64bit and needs a workaround to do so, but I don't
have devices that can use it.

If you run into that issue, you may want to use i386.