From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 24 17:57:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D15E01065672 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:57:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout024.mac.com (asmtpout024.mac.com [17.148.16.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC7B48FC0C for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:57:35 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp024.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KYC00B2NXVTPQ20@asmtp024.mac.com> for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:57:30 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1002240129 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <2dab70a31002240702s24d6c915ke909884934e83bf7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:57:29 -0800 Message-id: <89B5B986-3E82-47DE-A14D-15D9ECFC7BDB@mac.com> References: <2dab70a31002240702s24d6c915ke909884934e83bf7@mail.gmail.com> To: Paul Halliday X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will this work with 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: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:57:35 -0000 On Feb 24, 2010, at 7:02 AM, Paul Halliday wrote: > http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLANP > > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5460 @ 3.16GHz (3158.77-MHz 686-class CPU) > > I am just reading this (the "marked as 5xx numbers" has me confused): The CPU you are looking up is a modern "Bloomfield" Xeon which supports 64-bit mode fine. The footnote is in reference to earlier P4/Xeons (around "Prescott" / "Gallatin"). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon Regards, -- -Chuck