--- wikisrc/ports/amd64.mdwn 2012/11/03 19:20:33 1.7
+++ wikisrc/ports/amd64.mdwn 2014/12/24 05:28:50 1.12
@@ -1,22 +1,21 @@
[[!template id=port
port="amd64"
-cur_rel="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
+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