Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 07:12:37 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Cartoon Factory <artwork@cartoon-factory.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid Question Message-ID: <20060401211237.GD684@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200604012048.k31Kmb8k097421@ceres.aros.net> References: <200604012048.k31Kmb8k097421@ceres.aros.net>
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On Sat, 2006-Apr-01 13:48:48 -0700, Cartoon Factory wrote: >I have a stupid question. No such thing as stupid questions but this does belong on -questions rather then -arch. > 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 was Intel's replacement for the iA32 processor family. It sports an impressive collection of buzzwords that were state-of-the-art when it was first announced. It spent so long as vapourware and has turned out to be such a flop that Intel wound up licensing the AMD64 (which it re-named EM64T). >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? In the "CPU" section of your dmesg, you should have a line "AMD Features" with the "LM" flag set - this means you have an amd64/em64t. To run in 64-bit mode, you need FreeBSD/amd64. -- Peter Jeremy
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