From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 23 01:11:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00EDB106566B for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:11:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Manju_Kalita@infosys.com) Received: from KECGATE08.infosys.com (Kecgate08.infosysconsulting.com [122.98.10.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B1018FC18 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:11:26 +0000 (UTC) X-TM-IMSS-Message-ID: Received: from blrkechub02.ad.infosys.com ([10.66.236.42]) by KECGATE08.infosys.com ([122.98.10.33]) with ESMTP (TREND IMSS SMTP Service 7.0) id c1619727001113e1 ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:38:06 +0530 Received: from BLRKECMBX01.ad.infosys.com ([10.66.236.25]) by blrkechub02.ad.infosys.com ([10.66.236.42]) with mapi; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:36:24 +0530 From: Manju Kalita To: "freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org" Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:36:16 +0530 Thread-Topic: FreeBSD for Intel(r) Xeon Processor X5560 Thread-Index: AcsqA0DArminSRu2ROKzkNbTz17Txg== Message-ID: <3328D456F567BB42856F60C58D32F0C30283487140@BLRKECMBX01.ad.infosys.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-cr-hashedpuzzle: AZJi AeZ1 A5pf BMfA BpKp B2oK CPP0 Drvw DyZI Ei1q EwWi Fas3 Fj1E HulR Jub4 Ko+h; 1; ZgByAGUAZQBiAHMAZAAtAGEAbQBkADYANABAAGYAcgBlAGUAYgBzAGQALgBvAHIAZwA=; Sosha1_v1; 7; {F5F34CD3-7F5F-4C15-9622-30F8289BB5B8}; bQBhAG4AagB1AF8AawBhAGwAaQB0AGEAQABpAG4AZgBvAHMAeQBzAC4AYwBvAG0A; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:06:16 GMT; RgByAGUAZQBCAFMARAAgAGYAbwByACAAIABJAG4AdABlAGwArgAgAFgAZQBvAG4AIABQAHIAbwBjAGUAcwBzAG8AcgAgAFgANQA1ADYAMAA= x-cr-puzzleid: {F5F34CD3-7F5F-4C15-9622-30F8289BB5B8} acceptlanguage: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:03:50 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: FreeBSD for Intel(r) Xeon Processor X5560 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:11:28 -0000 Hi Friends, My Processor is "Intel(r) Xeon(r) Processor X5560 (2.80 GHz, 8MB L3 Cache, = 95W, DDR3-1333, HT, Turbo 2/2/3/3)". Could you please advice which FreeBSD = architecture I should use? As per the FreeBSD site, IA64 is still running o= n tier 2. Could you please help me out? What will be the performance if I go for Amd64? Will Amd64 will support Int= el(r) Xeon(r) Processor X5560? Thanks & Regards, Manju