AMD64 Support

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Tue, February 13, 2007 6:13 am, km b wrote:

> There is no doubt that DragonFly is heading in the right direction for
> SMP support. Now that, I was very excited by the DragonFly project , I
> wanted to contribute to it and the particular area I am interested in
> is porting it to AMD64 platform. Infact, I specifically bought a
> laptop with AMD Turion 64 X2 processor to jump start into development.
>
> I just wanted to know is anybody currently working on AMD64 platform
> support. Or if any experienced hacker can provide me details or point
> me in the right direction on what is required, I'd be very thankful.

I don't think there's any active AMD64 work happening right now.  There's
some work that was done in the tree, though someone else hopefully knows
where.

Work on AMD64 would be great - it's one of the more common things that
gets asked about.