--- wikisrc/ports/amd64.mdwn 2012/04/15 20:25:45 1.1 +++ wikisrc/ports/amd64.mdwn 2012/04/15 20:35:58 1.2 @@ -4,6 +4,35 @@ cur_rel="5.1.2" future_rel="6.0" changes_cur="5.0" changes_future="6.0" +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 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). + + 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. + + The original work to do this port was done by Frank van der Linden at + Wasabi Systems, assisted by + AMD, who provided the simulator + (Simics VirtuHammer), pre-release hardware and access to a range + of Opteron hardware through the + AMD Developer Center. + + The port is fully functional. It has been tested on single-CPU and + multiprocessor (SMP) Opteron configurations. Since the release of NetBSD 2.0, + it is a completely supported platform. + + Andrew Doran is the maintainer of NetBSD/amd64. +""" ]]