From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 18 00:42:20 2011 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 88DFD106564A for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:42:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [66.147.249.253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5480B8FC15 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:42:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 13334 invoked by uid 0); 18 Mar 2011 00:42:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy1.bluehost.com.bluehost.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2011 00:42:19 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=YKNTfsOmHHhtPvVLo86sSCOANPToaFbPOo35moayLbAbB+GMHzklZh8T1gGwVTyuPPuJoDilLv9mYUGgLX0mlMDd9niDP1r8MPaEJmT3Om3lNyqwIBLjKaL62HRDEdOY; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0Nli-0000HF-HD for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:42:19 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:30:37 -0600 Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:30:37 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110318003037.GB16316@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20110317213336.GF10069@ece.pdx.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gatW/ieO32f1wygP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: How to tell whether CPU supports x64? 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: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:42:20 -0000 --gatW/ieO32f1wygP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 06:27:13PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: >=20 > yes that is correct, LM stands for Long Mode which indicates amd64 suppor= t. > If your CPU doesn't list it, it's either a 32 bit only CPU, or it's a bug. =2E . . or maybe it is a 64 bit CPU that is not x86_64/amd64 compatible. Do IA-64 (Itanium), IBM POWER, and SPARC 64 bit processors use the same Long Mode functionality? --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --gatW/ieO32f1wygP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk2Cp60ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVgNwCdEy0yYI+QrXa0EaGa6XB3ZYBs 0rkAoIxbWAMTtgaRCUs7dx0Qv5WQweV6 =4UCS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gatW/ieO32f1wygP--