Re: 12GB RAM with DfBSD?

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> Erik Wikström wrote:
>
> > > Do know when DragonFly would support 64-bit? Can DF easily be ported 
> > > to AMD64 (have any of the changes the DF team to their 4.x FBSD 
> > > kernel made this step more trivial) or does it come down to a full 
> > > rewrite of DF for 64bit?
> >
> > I believe that work on making the code support 64-bit has been done and
> > more is under way, however all parts are not done yet.
>
>
> We have been supporting 64bit since always because FreeBSD-4 had an 
> alpha port.  I think it boils down to have the MD pieces for amd64. 
> That's no walk in the park though.

Uhm, not really.  There are quite a few parts, like the BUF code, drivers, 
etc which need to be cleaned up so that they work without issues on 64 bit 
systems.

				-Hiten