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To: Dan3 who wrote (141186)8/9/2001 10:57:54 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
Blow Boy Dan - Re: "This system is my preferred system for FreeBSD development and I highly recommend it.
-- David O'Brien (obrien@FreeBSD.org)"

What a friggin' coincidence !!1

David O'Brien just happens to be the geek who is being SPONSORED BY AMD to do the freeBSD port to the AMD VirtuHammer x86-64 !!!

Rather a foregone conclusion - his CPU choice - isn't it?

freebsd.org

FreeBSD/x86-64 Project


This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to AMD's upcoming x86-64 ``Hammer'' architecture.

Latest News
13-April-2001 David O'Brien received the commercial Virtutech Simics-LE "VirtuHammer" x86-64 simulator in order to begin the port.

What needs to be done

David O'Brien is working on modifying the AMD sponsored x86-64 GCC for FreeBSD's needs. Anyone working on toolchain issues should coordinate with David O'Brien.

AMD's SimNow! x86-64 simulator is currently less than ideal for FreeBSD development due to its slowness