Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:02:53 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A stupid 64bit question ... but ... Message-ID: <20051205030253.GC62285@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20051204184826.D1077@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20051204184826.D1077@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 06:50:55PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > I recently bought a new Intel Xeon server, and when I put it together, I > didn't realize that the newer Xeon's were 64bit ... now, I've just built > perl 5.8.7, and its reporting: > > ================= > # perl -v > This is perl, v5.8.7 built for i386-freebsd-64int .. > I realize that this may be a stupid question, but am I correct in that > *this* is a 64bit machine, and I should be enabling the AMD64 stuff on > her? Perl won't be reporting a 64-bit capable machine, when running a 32-bit OS. Look in /var/run/dmesg for 'AMD Features' to report 'LM' (long mode). -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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