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<p>This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to AMD's
upcoming x86-64 ``Hammer'' architecture.</p>
<h3>Latest News</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><b>13-April-2001</b> <a href="mailto:obrien@FreeBSD.org">David
O'Brien</a> received the commercial Virtutech Simics-LE "VirtuHammer"
x86-64 simulator in order to begin the port.</p></li>
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<h3>What needs to be done</h3>
<p>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 <a href="mailto:obrien@FreeBSD.org">David O'Brien</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.x86-64.org/downloads/">AMD's SimNow! x86-64
simulator</a> is currently less than ideal for FreeBSD development due to
its slowness.</p>
<H3>FreeBSD/x86-64 Specific Links</H3>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="mailto:hackers@FreeBSD.org">FreeBSD/x86-64 mailing list</A></LI>
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<H3>Other Links of Interest</H3>
<H4>x86-64 Documentation</H4>
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<li><a href="http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/64bit/pdf/x86-64_overview.pdf">
AMD x86-64 Architecture Specification</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.x86-64.org/abi.pdf">
AMD x86-64 DRAFT Processor-specific Application Binary Interface Specification</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.x86-64.org/documentation_folder/white_paper.pdf">
AMD x86-64 whitepaper</a></li>
</UL>
<H4>Software Tools</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.x86-64.org/downloads">AMD SimNow! x86-64 Linux
Simulator and Tools</a></li>
</ul>
<H4>Related Projects</H4>
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.x86-64.org/kernel_folder/kernel">Linux / x86-64</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.org/Ports/x86_64/">NetBSD/x86_64</A></LI>
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