--- wikisrc/ports/amd64.mdwn 2012/04/17 08:39:56 1.5 +++ wikisrc/ports/amd64.mdwn 2014/12/24 05:28:50 1.12 @@ -1,24 +1,21 @@ [[!template id=port port="amd64" -cur_rel="5.1.2" -future_rel="6.0" -changes_cur="5.0" -changes_future="6.0" +cur_rel="6.1.5" +future_rel="7.0" +changes_cur="6.0" +changes_future="7.0" thumbnail="http://www.netbsd.org/images/ports/amd64/AMD_Opteron.gif" about=""" -NetBSD/amd64 is a port to the AMD64 family of processors and -supports all other CPUs that implement the 64bit AMD64 -architecture. These currently include AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon64, -and Intel CPUs with the EM64T extension. +NetBSD/amd64 is a port to the AMD64 family of processors; it +supports CPUs that implement the 64-bit x86 +architecture. This covers all recent AMD and Intel models. NetBSD/amd64 is a true 64bit operating system. Running -32bit NetBSD/i386 binaries is supported as well, see -compat_netbsd32(8). Running 32bit Linux emulations will -be available in the future, the setup will be similar to -the one described in compat_svr4_32(8). +32-bit NetBSD/i386 binaries is supported as well; see +compat_netbsd32(8). The port was first committed to the NetBSD source tree as NetBSD/x86_64 -on June 19th, 2001 and renamed to NetBSD/amd64 on April 26th, 2003. +on June 19th, 2001 and renamed to NetBSD/amd64 on April 26th, 2003. The original work to do this port was done by Frank van der Linden at Wasabi Systems, assisted by