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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:01:32 -0500
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From: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] amd64 port
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
<vdharani@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i think we could stress on a specific architecture (and aim to provide
> basic and improved support) based on these criteria:
>
> - mainline architecture
> - cheap and affordable both for companies and individuals (also,
> single board orders as well as bulk orders)
> - widely deployed and used
> - has future
> - availability of VM software (like VmWare, Parallels, etc) and
> ability to run at least on top of such facility
> - low power versions
>
> i guess amd64 is a definite win.
>

well, I'd say the best target for amd64 is qemu-system-x86_64 so we
spend minimal time on driver peculiarities and hardware nonsense, but
since I have zero time to work on it, I'll shut up :)

       -eric