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                     18: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64</font></h2>
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1.4       deraadt    23: OpenBSD/amd64 runs on AMD's Athlon-64 family of processors in 64-bit mode.
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        !            27: It also runs on the upcoming Intel ia32e processors which contain cloned
        !            28: support for the AMD64 extensions, but since Intel left out support for
        !            29: the page table NXE bit (No-EXecute) there is no W^X support on the Intel
        !            30: cpus.
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1.4       deraadt    34: Note that OpenBSD/i386 also runs on these processors, but in 32-bit mode.
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1.4       deraadt    37: <a href="#toc"></a>
                     38: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.1       brad       39: <p>
1.4       deraadt    40: <ul>
                     41:   <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
                     42:   <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/amd64</a>
                     43: </ul>
                     44: </p>
                     45:
                     46: <hr>
                     47: <a name="status"></a>
                     48: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
                     49:
                     50: <p>
                     51: It can be expected to install and run with minimal difficulty on most current
                     52: hardware.
                     53: <p>
                     54:
                     55: A few problems exist with the bootblocks, kvm libraries, and some floating
                     56: point operations.  Obviously this is fairly new, so it will take time to
                     57: find other issues and fix them.
                     58: <p>
                     59:
                     60: <hr>
                     61: <a name="install"></a>
                     62: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
                     63: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/amd64:</strong>
                     64: </font></h3>
                     65:
                     66: <p>
                     67: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
                     68: <a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64">this location</a>
                     69: as well as in a few
                     70: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
                     71: Here are the
                     72: <a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
                     73: OpenBSD/amd64 snapshot installation instructions
                     74: </a> as well.
1.1       brad       75: </p>
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1.4       deraadt    78: There are several installation media provided:
                     79: <ul>
                     80:   <li><strong>CD boot</strong>
                     81:   <p>
                     82:   Booting off the CD provides an <i>El Torito</i> 2.88MB floppy image
                     83:   that contains almost all OpenBSD drivers.
                     84:   This also includes minimal USB support (storage devices and keyboard).<br>
                     85:   For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
                     86:   <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/RAMDISK_CD?rev=HEAD">RAMDISK_CD</a>
                     87:   kernel configuration file.
                     88:   </p></li>
                     89:   <li><strong>Floppy A</strong> (floppy34.fs)
                     90:   <p>
                     91:   This 1.44MB floppy image contains the most common drivers.
                     92:   It is designed to cover the most typical PC. As a general rule, you will
                     93:   find that the missing drivers are ones which need large microcodes to run,
                     94:   such as for rare scsi cards, gigabit ethernet cards, or RAID devices.<br>
                     95:   For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
                     96:   <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/RAMDISK?rev=HEAD">RAMDISK</a>
                     97:   kernel configuration file.
                     98: </ul>
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                    103: <img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0" alt="Supported platforms">
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