Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 12:51:22 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Cartoon Factory <artwork@cartoon-factory.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid Question Message-ID: <20060401205122.GA81680@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200604012048.k31Kmb8k097421@ceres.aros.net> References: <200604012048.k31Kmb8k097421@ceres.aros.net>
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On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 01:48:48PM -0700, Cartoon Factory wrote: > > I have a stupid question. I am looking at the processors supported by > FreeBSD, and I see AMD64 (which I know is AMD) and ia64 (which I have no > clue what it is). ia64 == Intel Itanium > I am looking at getting a new server, with a XEON processor. > > My confusion is two-fold. One, they say the processor is 32/64. Can FreeBSD > use the 64 aspect of this? And if so, is it ia64, or under i386? > If the XEON is an EM64T processor, then you want to use FreeBSD-amd64 to harness the 64-bit nature of the processor. -- Steve
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