This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to AMD's upcoming x86-64 ``Hammer'' architecture.

Latest News

• 13-April-2001 David O'Brien received the commercial Virtutech Simics-LE "VirtuHammer" x86-64 simulator in order to begin the port.

What needs to be done

David O'Brien is working on modifying the AMD sponsored x86-64 GCC for FreeBSD's needs. Anyone working on toolchain issues should coordinate with David O'Brien.

AMD's SimNow! x86-64 simulator is currently less than ideal for FreeBSD development due to its slowness.

FreeBSD/x86-64 Specific Links

• FreeBSD/x86-64 mailing list

Other Links of Interest

x86-64 Documentation

• AMD x86-64 Architecture Specification
• AMD x86-64 DRAFT Processor-specific Application Binary Interface Specification
• AMD x86-64 whitepaper

Software Tools

• AMD SimNow! x86-64 Linux Simulator and Tools

Related Projects

• Linux / x86-64
• NetBSD/x86_64