From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 11 08:22:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA59C16A403 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:22:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roman787@ukrintell.com.ua) Received: from pop.ukrintell.com.ua (pop.ukrintell.com.ua [81.21.0.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2140C43D53 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:22:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roman787@ukrintell.com.ua) Received: from INTELLMON ([81.21.0.3]) by pop.ukrintell.com.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k8B8S8Wn039917 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:28:17 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from roman787@ukrintell.com.ua) From: "Roman Lyashenko" To: Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:22:36 +0300 Message-ID: <000901c6d57b$7395ab00$5028a8c0@INTELLMON> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: XEON 5050 and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:22:44 -0000 >On 9/9/06, Roman Lyashenko < 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/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