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Don't crosspost -questions and other lists. Stripping questions cc:.

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Remi wrote:

> Just to clarify exactly what you mean. I can the x86 version of BSD with no
> changes to the BIOS, jumpers or anything on an AMD64?

No hardware changes necessary. The OS has to write to a CPU register to
enable AMD64 native ("Long") mode; without the write, it acts just like
any other i386 CPU.

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