Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 20:04:05 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> Cc: Stari Karp <starikarp@yandex.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: processor Message-ID: <23137.17413.556937.796251@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20180118205117.77ad792f@Papi.lobos> References: <1516315417.19486.1.camel@yandex.com> <20180118205117.77ad792f@Papi.lobos>
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Mario Lobo writes:
> > Does it mean that the motherboard is AMD and CPU is Intel. But why
> > uname -m shows amd64, please?
>
> This only means that the architecture is 64 bits, which is named
> amd64, the same way that i386 means 32 bits.
My understanding is slightly different.
"amd64" is a label applied to the 64 bit extensions to the
Intel i386 architecture. There are other 64 bit architectures, some
(all?) supported by FreeBSD: Sparc V9; Power64; MIPS64; and Intel's
IA-64 ("Itanium").
CPUs compliant with those extensions are reported as "amd64" by
FreeBSD no matter who actually makes them.
Respectfully,
Robert Huff
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