[OpenBSD]

OpenBSD/amd64


OpenBSD/amd64 runs on AMD's Athlon-64 family of processors in 64-bit mode.

It also runs on the upcoming Intel ia32e processors which contain cloned support for the AMD64 extensions, but since Intel left out support for the page table NXE bit (No-EXecute) there is no W^X support on the Intel cpus.

Note that OpenBSD/i386 also runs on these processors, but in 32-bit mode.

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Current status:

It can be expected to install and run with minimal difficulty on most current hardware.

The only major shortcoming at this time is that the kernel debugger ddb is somewhat poor, and that the 3.5 release will not contain a working gdb debugger installed, but one will be provided as a package one can pkg_add.


Supported hardware:

The list of supported hardware is relevant to OpenBSD-current. It will differ slightly from the support provided in the latest release version.

Processors

OpenBSD does not currently support multiple processors (SMP), but will run using one processor on a multi-processor system board.

All versions of the AMD Athlon 64 processors and their clones.

Buses

Bus interfaces

Entropy sources

PCI IDE and Serial ATA Controllers (pciide)

SCSI Host Adapters

RAID and Cache Controllers

CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Drives

Tape Drives

Display Adapters

Note that not all of the display adapters OpenBSD/amd64 supports can be used under XFree86 (please refer the XFree86 documentation for more information).

Serial Ports

Communications Controllers

Ethernet Adapters

Please be aware that many NE2000 adapters fail or perform very poorly. We do not recommend using them, but your mileage may vary.

Wireless Ethernet Adapters

Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

ATM Adapters

FDDI Adapters

WAN Adapters

Cryptography Accelerators

Universal Serial Bus (USB) Devices (A) (B) (C)

Pointing Devices (G)

Sound Devices (G)

The following drivers are not extensively tested:

Radio Receiver Devices (radio)

Miscellaneous Devices


Getting and installing OpenBSD/amd64:

Snapshots are made available from time to time, in this location as well as in a few mirrors. Here are the OpenBSD/amd64 snapshot installation instructions as well.

There are several installation media provided:


Supported platforms
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