Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:22:36 +0300 From: "Roman Lyashenko" <roman787@ukrintell.com.ua> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: XEON 5050 and FreeBSD Message-ID: <000901c6d57b$7395ab00$5028a8c0@INTELLMON>
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>On 9/9/06, Roman Lyashenko < <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware>; roman787 at ukrintell.com.ua> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> >> >> Does anybody know if FreeBSD supports new Intel 64-bit dual-core XEON >> 5050 or maybe going to support in the future? >> > >As Mike said, just a new CPU, which, by the way, is seen as 4 CPUs, >because of its dual core and hyper-threading technology, as far as I >understand. > > <http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/reseller/asmo-na/eng/products/server/pr ocessors/5000/feature/index.htm> http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/reseller/asmo-na/eng/products/server/pro cessors/5000/feature/index.htm Yes, it's true. But as far as I know FreeBSD supports 64-bit architecture for Intel Intanium and AMD processors only. What about Xeon? What FreeBSD branch should be used for 64-bit dual-core XEON 5050 with Supermicro motherboard and 8 GB of RAM? Dmitry
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