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[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

> (I do not know why, for "freebsd" x86_64 maps to "freebsd" and not "freebsd-
> amd64")

It could be that it's because nobody was compiling binaries on 64-bit
at the beginning and they argued that 32-bit ones work on 64-bit
platforms. But I might be wrong.

> There is some confusion. Does $cpu=amd64 exist? What about for linux?

I don't know.

> As far as I know, 64 bit linux/freebsd/kfreebsd use the same distributions
> ("amd64") for both Intel and AMD processors.

Mojca