On 2015 Jul 15 (Wed) at 05:27:37 +0200 (+0200), L.R. D.S. wrote: :Not that "nice". This hardware have many fancy things like UEFI and intel :ME. :I run i386 mostly because the /amd64.html say that "it is thus safer to :run those machines in i386 mode"
That is an incredibly ancient comment, and is eseentially no longer relevant. OK? Index: amd64.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/openbsd/www/amd64.html,v retrieving revision 1.253 diff -u -p -u -p -r1.253 amd64.html --- amd64.html 2 Jul 2015 05:49:03 -0000 1.253 +++ amd64.html 15 Jul 2015 03:35:29 -0000 @@ -19,9 +19,7 @@ <p> OpenBSD/amd64 runs on AMD's Athlon-64 family of processors in 64-bit mode. It also runs on processors made by other manufacturers which have cloned -the AMD64 extensions. (Some Intel processors lack support for important -PAE NX bit, which means those machines will run without any W^X support -- -it is thus safer to run those machines in i386 mode). +the AMD64 extensions. <p> Note that <a href="i386.html">OpenBSD/i386</a> also runs on these processors, but in 32-bit mode. -- Familiarity breeds attempt.
