Re: AMD64 box

[Richard Coleman <Richard.Coleman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

That should keep you busy for awhile :-)

Richard Coleman
Richard.Coleman@xxxxxxxxxx

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Hello everyone!  I got my AMD64 box today!  Yeh!
>
>     The first order of business will be to make it work with a standard
>     boot and standard peripherals.  I enabled netbooting and it got half
>     way through a standard (32 bit) boot right off the bat before panic'ing
>     so that's a very good sign!  It recognized the USB and IEEE-1594 ports
>     and found something like five or six PCI busses, though I've no idea 
>     whether any of it actually works yet.
>
>     There are a lot of new things in this system including a new way to
>     configure APICs, SATA drives, and of course 64 bit mode, so I hope
>     to get all these things up to snuff in the next few weeks.  To kill
>     a flock of birds with one stone so to speak.
>
>     I almost had a heart attack hooking it up, though... I put the thing
>     together and then realize I hadn't gotten any ram for it!  Oh no!  But
>     it turns out that the EPIA M-9000 boxes use the same kind of DDR SDRAM
>     that the AMD uses so, whew!
>
>     The alpha and Itanium non-withstanding, the AMD64 is the first 'consumer'
>     64 bit machine in mass production.  I am already impressed!
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>