From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 12 17:26:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8E7016A492 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:26:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F08A43D82 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:26:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C198B8A0054 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 62384-21 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:26:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from s10.sbo (s10.sbo [192.168.0.10]) by smtp.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id D368E8A004A for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:26:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Freddie Cash Organization: School District 73 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:26:41 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200610121653.k9CGrsce074740@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200610121653.k9CGrsce074740@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610121026.41326.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at sd73.bc.ca Subject: Re: Another whirl with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:26:59 -0000 On Thursday 12 October 2006 09:53 am, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > > I have just one remaining question, does what you said > > apply to the new Intel Core 2 Duo chips as well? > > It should apply to every machine that's supported by > FreeBSD/amd64, i.e. any processor that supports AMD64 > or EM64T (as intel calls it). Looks like Intel has renamed their version of the i386 64-bit extensions once again. First there was IA-32e (since they couldn't use IA-64 as that was the Itanium instruction set), then EM64T, now it's just Intel64. Guess they are trying to claim ownership of the amd64 architecture. :) http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34722 http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2Fmeldung%2F78786&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8 http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2006Sep/bch20060929038986.htm Maybe we should all just switch to using x86-64? :) They really like to muddy the naming waters: Pentium-M renamed Core at the same time they announce the Core Architecture, but the Pentium-M is not based on Core. First CPU based on Core is called Core2. Ah, what fun! -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP Network Support Technician School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca