Re: ABI for i386 binaries under FreeBSD-amd64

2007-10-31 Thread Stephen Allen
Roland Smith wrote: Than they should run i386. You only _need_ (as opposed to nice to play with :-) amd64 if you run out of address space on a typical workload. What if you have more than 3Gb of RAM to play with... would you have to use amd64 then? Steve :)

Re: ABI for i386 binaries under FreeBSD-amd64

2007-10-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:27:32AM +, Stephen Allen wrote: Roland Smith wrote: Than they should run i386. You only _need_ (as opposed to nice to play with :-) amd64 if you run out of address space on a typical workload. What if you have more than 3Gb of RAM to play with... would you have

Re: ABI for i386 binaries under FreeBSD-amd64

2007-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:39:24AM +0200, David Naylor wrote: Hi, I have seen that recently on the mailing list there has been a discussion on running i386 FreeBSD binaries under an amd64 system. As far as I have been able to read there does not appear to be anyway of achieving this except