From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 14 16:07:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA5F16A4E0 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:07:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (vpn.mired.org [66.92.153.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F7D443D78 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:07:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: (qmail 25444 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Aug 2006 16:07:11 -0000 Received: by bhuda.mired.org (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1001); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:07:10 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17632.40878.89491.84898@bhuda.mired.org> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:07:10 -0400 To: John Baldwin In-Reply-To: <200608140929.53373.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <17630.8773.656653.169665@bhuda.mired.org> <200608140929.53373.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" XEmacs Lucid X-Primary-Address: mwm@mired.org X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.0.3 (Seattle Slew) From: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 port on Prescott 2M? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:07:21 -0000 In <200608140929.53373.jhb@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin typed: > On Saturday 12 August 2006 14:47, Mike Meyer wrote: > > I just got a Prescott 2M core. While it's marketed as a P4, it's got > > all the features of the Xeon Nocona core enabled (except for MP > > support, of course): MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, HT, EM64T, EIST and XD. > > > > The question is whether or not the AMD64 build of FreeBSD - which runs > > on Nocona - will run on this. If someone knows for sure it won't run, > > they'll save me the time of trying it. > If it has EM64T it should run FreeBSD/amd64. That's what I would expect, but that's not what the online docs I found said. I could have sworn it just talked about the Xeon nocona, but I can't find it now :-(. The HARDWARE.TXT file on the distribution does, but it's not accurate (it says the 5xx series Prescott's don't have EM64T, but Intel docs some of the 5x1's as having EM64T). It doesn't talk about the Cedar Mill P4 core or the Pentium D's at all. I'll look into submitting a doc PR to change this. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.