On Saturday 29 May 2010 10:09:07 you wrote:

On Fri, 28 May 2010 18:09:17 +0200 Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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(I do not know why, for "freebsd" x86_64 maps to "freebsd" and not "freebsd- amd64")

I am not sure what this discussion is about, I just got this part forwarded by Mojca. But if you talk about the case statement in first-setup.sh I don't know why there is a x86_64 branch for FreeBSD at all. On FreeBSD AMD64 you get:

[mickraus@gandalf ~]\$ uname -s FreeBSD [mickraus@gandalf ~]\$ uname -m amd64

This is on an E6300 Intel processor.

Yes, it can get confusing: uname -s uname -m uname -p ---------------------------------------- Intel Q9400 (Core2 Quad): FreeBSD amd64 amd64 GNU/kFreeBSD x86_64 amd64 Linux x86_64 unknown 32bit os (same processor): FreeBSD ? (untested) ? GNU/kFreeBSD i686 i386 GNU/Linux i686 unknown ---------------------------------------- Intel pentium 4: FreeBSD ? (untested) ? GNU/kFreeBSD i686 i386 GNU/Linux i686 unknown ----------------------------------------

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As far as I know, 64 bit linux/freebsd/kfreebsd use the same distributions ("amd64") for both Intel and AMD processors.

Same for official FreeBSD AMD64. There is no special version of FreeBSD for 64bit x86 CPU from Intel. There is a IA64 version of FreeBSD that is often mistaken as built for those Intel AMD64 clones. But this version is actually build for the Itanium Architecture, descendant of PA-RISC. Summary: FreeBSD AMD64 is used for all 64bit x86 CPUs.

The official 64bit OS name is "amd64" for FreeBSD, GNU/kFreeBSD and Linux. However, uname -m gives differing results and depends on the version of the running OS, not the real underlying processor; A 64bit processor can run a 32bit OS. Alan