Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:22:04 -0800 (PST) From: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <wearabnet@yahoo.ca> To: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> Cc: Artem Kuchin <matrix@itlegion.ru>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will 7-beta amd64 run on the old xeon? Message-ID: <427731.49909.qm@web33705.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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----- Original Message ---- > From: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> > To: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <wearabnet@yahoo.ca> > Cc: Artem Kuchin <matrix@itlegion.ru>; freebsd-current@freebsd.org > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 8:01:12 PM > Subject: Re: Will 7-beta amd64 run on the old xeon? > > 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 > V,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> > > Features2=0x641d > > AMD Features=0x20100000 > > 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. > > -- > Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - The University of Salford Hello, It could use AMD64 but it was running 6.2 i386 so I just upgraded it to RELENG_7 i386 since it has 2 GB of ram only. Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ
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