On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 9:16 PM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/01/13 00:06, Jash Sefferson wrote: > >> Hi guys. >> >> Im a civil engineer by day and use OpenBSD at night, but Im trying to do >> high-end CAD on my home PC and OpenBSD doesnt support 64-bit Intel chips. >> >> Don't believe me? It says very clearly at the OpenBSD/amd64 page: All >> versions of the AMD Athlon 64 processors and their clones are supported. >> But does not mention or list any Intel chips. Not one. >> >> Wtf? I can do CAD on my i7-980X under Windows 7 SP 1, but Id rather >> use something secure and responsibly coded like OpenBSD. Except that I >> can't. >> >> Why for the life of this platform are we not on the only future direction >> for the platform? And I mean that literally. Neither AMD nor Intel sells >> 32-bit chips anymore. If OpenBSD remains stuck at 32 bits, people will >> stop >> using and developing for it. >> >> Who makes the decision to keep OpenBSD off of 64-bit Intel? And why the >> hell are they doing so? >> >> -jash >> >> >> Um.... I'm writing this on an amd64 Thinkpad W500 which has a > 2.8GHz core two duo. So I don't understand what you mean. > > --STeve Andre' > > At first I thought this was a wonderful troll. Guy's got a point though. Look at the i386 page. http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html: Supported hardware: The list of supported hardware is relevant to OpenBSD-current. It will differ slightly from the support provided in the latest release version. Processors All CPU chips compatible with the Intel 80386 (i386) architecture, except for the 80386 itself, are supported: 80486 (DX/DX2/DX4) Intel Pentium/Pentium-MMX Intel Pentium Pro/II/III/Celeron/Xeon Intel Pentium 4/D Intel Pentium M Intel Core Intel Core 2 (Also see OpenBSD/amd64 for 64-bit support) Intel Atom (Also see OpenBSD/amd64 for 64-bit support) AMD 5x86 AMD K5/K6/K6-2/K6-3 AMD Athlon/Duron/Sempron AMD Athlon 64/Opteron/Turion/Phenom (Also see OpenBSD/amd64 for 64-bit support) Cyrix MediaGX/M1/M2 Cyrix 6x86 VIA C3/C7 Rise mP6 IDT WinChip and C3 NexGen 586 NS Geode GX1 and M1 AMD Geode GX/LX/NX Transmeta TM3200, TM5400, TM5600, TM5800 Regular floating-point coprocessors (80487SX) are required when not built into the processor. Everything that is a clone of the 486 or up should work fine.
