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Cc: Artem Kuchin <matrix@itlegion.ru>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Will 7-beta amd64 run on the old xeon?
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:

> It should work with i386 at least.
> I have dual Xeon 2.8 EM64 and I use i386 with it.
>
>  Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>  Features2=0x641d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,CNXT-ID,CX16,xTPR>
>  AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>

According to the last post; the LM feature above, means you can run amd64 
on your CPU i.e. it's not the same as the OP's cpu?
   Cheers.

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