--- wikisrc/ports/amd64.mdwn 2012/11/03 19:20:33 1.7 +++ wikisrc/ports/amd64.mdwn 2019/09/02 22:17:05 1.28 @@ -1,32 +1,32 @@ [[!template id=port port="amd64" -cur_rel="6.0" -future_rel="7.0" -changes_cur="6.0" -changes_future="7.0" -thumbnail="http://www.netbsd.org/images/ports/amd64/AMD_Opteron.gif" +cur_rel="8.1" +future_rel="9.0" +pkg_rel="8.0" +changes_cur="8.1" +changes_future="9.0" +thumbnail="//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). +32-bit NetBSD/i386 binaries is supported as well; see +[[!template id=man name="compat_netbsd32" section="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 +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, +multiprocessor (SMP) Opteron configurations. Since the release of NetBSD 2.0, it is a completely supported platform. """