Announcing GinGin64: A Technology Preview for the AMD64 Platform

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris redhat com>]

I'm announcing this here to widen the distribution, as many X 
users may also be interested in XFree86 running on the AMD 64 bit 
technology platform "AMD64".

If you encounter bugs with XFree86 running on AMD Opteron 
hardware, please report them via bugzilla as instructed below, 
and flag them as "x86_64" (the old name for AMD64).  Be sure to 
include complete details as to the type of system you're using, 
what video hardware, and attach your X server log and config 
file.

Also, since this hardware is brand new technology to the larger 
general public, only a small subset of video hardware has been 
tested on this platform in 64bit mode.

While only certain hardware is officially supported, I'd like to
encourage anyone interested in testing various video hardware
they've got laying around out, in order to get a better idea 
what other hardware works and what hardware doesn't work at 
all.  In particular some of the older generations of hardware 
out there which might be laying in a drawer, etc.

If you test any extra hardware out, please post a message here to 
let us all know your results.  Feel free to file bug reports in 
bugzilla also if you like.

I'd basically like to know - for hardware I don't have 
access too currently, which drivers work at all on the new 
AMD64 platform, and which ones don't, so I can poke at them a bit 
and also decide which drivers will officially ship in our future 
products for this platform.

Also, feel free to drop by #xfree86 and/or #AMD64 on 
irc.freenode.net if you'd like to chat about AMD64 and/or XFree86 
on this platform.

Enjoy.

-- 
Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat

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Subject: Announcing GinGin64: A Technology Preview for the AMD64 Platform

Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of our AMD64
technology preview.  This preview is for those who are interested in
early access to a Red Hat distribution for the AMD64 platform.

Accessing the Software
----------------------

For this technology preview, we are offering access via FTP at the
following location:
 
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/preview/gingin64/

Please note that this download location and the software there should
be considered non-production and is not supported.

Bug Reporting
-------------
To ensure accurate tracking, all bugs should be reported using
Bugzilla at:

  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/

If you do not have a bugzilla account, please visit
http://bugzilla.redhat.com and create one by following the
instructions provided on Red Hat's bugzilla web site.
 
Please search for existing bugs before filing new reports.  Also read
the RELEASE-NOTES included in the Technology Preview to avoid
reporting known issues.  Bugs should be filed against the "Red Hat
Linux", product version "GinGin64", platform "x86_64".

Mailing Lists
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Red Hat has created a mailing list for general discussion about Red
Hat technology on the AMD64 platform called "amd64-list redhat com"

You can subscribe at:
    https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/amd64-list



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