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Date:      Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:13:32 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
To:        Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>
Cc:        Stefan Cars <stefan@snowfall.se>
Subject:   Re: amd64 or i386 on PE 1850 Intel Xeon with EMT64
Message-ID:  <41CB34FC.6000104@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <41CBC0B4.6020005@ispro.net.tr>
References:  <41CB25AE.6050503@snowfall.se> <41CBC0B4.6020005@ispro.net.tr>

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Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> amd64 on intel? I dont think it would work.
> 
> You should use i386.
> 
> To use amd64, you should get an 64bit AMD processor like AMD Athlon 64
> http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_9484,00.html 
> 

No, this is not correct.  The EM64T 'extentions' from Intel implement 
the amd64 ISA.  To answer the original question, FreeBSD/amd64 runs fine
on EM64T processors.

Scott



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