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1.1       mspo        1: [[!template id=port
                      2: port="amd64"
                      3: cur_rel="5.1.2"
                      4: future_rel="6.0"
                      5: changes_cur="5.0"
                      6: changes_future="6.0"
1.2       mspo        7: thumbnail="http://www.netbsd.org/images/ports/amd64/AMD_Opteron.gif"
                      8: about="""
1.3       mspo        9: NetBSD/amd64 is a port to the AMD64 family of processors and
                     10: supports all other CPUs that implement the 64bit AMD64
                     11: architecture.  These currently include AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon64,
                     12: and Intel CPUs with the EM64T extension.
                     13: 
                     14: NetBSD/amd64 is a true 64bit operating system. Running
                     15: 32bit NetBSD/i386 binaries is supported as well, see 
                     16: <a href="http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?compat_netbsd32+8+NetBSD-5.1+i386">compat_netbsd32(8)</a>. Running 32bit Linux emulations will
                     17: be available in the future, the setup will be similar to
                     18: the one described in <a href="http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?compat_svr4_32+8+NetBSD-5.1+i386">compat_svr4_32(8)</a>.
                     19: 
                     20: The port was first committed to the NetBSD source tree as NetBSD/x86_64
                     21: on June 19th, 2001 and  renamed to NetBSD/amd64 on April 26th, 2003.
                     22: 
                     23: The original work to do this port was done by Frank van der Linden at
                     24: <a class="ulink" href="http://www.wasabisystems.com/" target="_top">Wasabi Systems</a>, assisted by
                     25: <a class="ulink" href="http://www.amd.com/" target="_top">AMD</a>, who provided the simulator
                     26: (Simics VirtuHammer), pre-release hardware and access to a range
                     27: of Opteron hardware through the
                     28: <a class="ulink" href="http://developer.amd.com/" target="_top">AMD Developer Center</a>.
                     29: 
                     30: The port is fully functional. It has been tested on single-CPU and
                     31: multiprocessor (SMP) Opteron configurations. Since the <a class="ulink" href="../../releases/formal-2.0/NetBSD-2.0.html" target="_top">release of NetBSD 2.0</a>,
                     32: it is a completely supported platform.
1.2       mspo       33: 
1.3       mspo       34: Andrew Doran is the maintainer of NetBSD/amd64.
1.2       mspo       35: """
1.1       mspo       36: 
                     37: ]]
1.4     ! mspo       38: [[!tag tier1port]]