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FreeBSD Boots on x86-64

Posted by michael on from the future-is-now dept.

craig2787 writes "FreeBSD developer Peter Wemm has successfully booted FreeBSD on a real AMD ClawHammer CPU, in both 64- and 32-bit modes. Original posting to the -current mailing list is here."

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  1. Em-Hache-Zed by Xunker · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "CPU: AMD ClawHammer(tm) (3.14-MHz Hammer-class CPU)"

    3 Megahertz? Whoohoo, looks like AMD is giving the Intel a run for it's money... and MOS, too.

    Seriously, though, I'd eventually like to see some real world performance specs of Hammer running in 32 bit mode, just to see if it's going to suffer from the same 32-bit-on-64-bit problems that Itanic has been having. If they figured out a way around that, they could totally own the market because Itanium 1 is dead and all cursory tests on Itanium 2 show it sucks the glands of a large braying animal when it comes to 32 bit code.

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    1. Re:Em-Hache-Zed by MBCook · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Well, either the frequency reporting is wrong (possible) or the runs he showed are under an emulator (bochs type thing). He said it runs on real hardware, so it's most likely the first option. I agree though, I would really like to see some benchmarks. We'll have to wait untill the 22nd to see 'em though.

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