From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 29 16:03:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C65716A420 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:03:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F12E513C46A for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:03:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so2004033nzf for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:03:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Apc7iDDQglN/egj9JOJFGoqAh6AMTXKL5/O3UWoYs1w=; b=i70tW6iuXNPIzuhYmKxhlFLOcm2dTsIVUCajOZl5uEPjIFWYUGaKlrh2uAzR0/dBmhsXT17eZBcPRmXj0RV+hLr/WoXz8mTpiQhHgKZajiFmjF+2OJwfMIY5b7gNECu+pVzzB+k7v+HvNzl+6r+Sw/RbYUj53CPNyj2s5oa5wb0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lhV9nPdjieILM53ENnmQ47+IiVWxLiYd1W9DICx3YPP2lxiMEMIFw6mLj9AGkiQXshi1DdfeCp5U0cZnzsQGa5YNklDDyChGjzkdz1PjwFzg6s/VkZjoi+/LoJ7cdbgJU4933tqQrD4pUCNa50rCNyavXPse6cDE6Y2J9CJUTjo= Received: by 10.65.156.2 with SMTP id i2mr10505133qbo.1191081785916; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:03:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.105.2 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:03:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:03:05 +0000 From: "Aryeh Friedman" To: "Lowell Gilbert" In-Reply-To: <44r6khh4xh.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44r6khh4xh.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:03:07 -0000 I have more then 4gb and was wondering why it didn't all show up.... is there anyway to do a in place upgrade (I have a lot of user data)... also someone should think about changing the naming on the iso/cpu types since 20 years of industry experience (15 with FreeBSD) and reading hardware.txt did not give a clue on this. --Aryeh On 9/29/07, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Aryeh Friedman" writes: > > > Currently I have done a build/installworld build/install/kernel using > > a i386 CPUTYPE (w/ SMP and APIC set in the kernel (I am using the > > default sys/i386/conf/GENERIC) do I need to change this to amd64 for a > > intel duo e6850? (I have had several seemingly unrelated problems > > that no one seems to be able to reproduce)... btw it is a P35 chipset > > It should work fine with either. With large amounts of memory (over 4 > gigabytes), amd64 will be better. There are a few (mostly desktop-only) > ports that will run on i386 but not on amd64. > >