From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Aug 7 14:29:05 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F0AD9B556A for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2015 14:29:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.70.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF72F8A9 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2015 14:29:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id 80A33CB8CA0; Fri, 7 Aug 2015 09:28:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 128.135.52.4 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Fri, 7 Aug 2015 09:28:58 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <20924.128.135.52.4.1438957738.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20150807012036.GB3683@slack> References: <55C3D434.6030005@sneakertech.com> <20150806220451.GA3683@slack> <55C3F50C.1000803@sneakertech.com> <20150807012036.GB3683@slack> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 09:28:58 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: 64bit P4 vs mfsBSD From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: "Dutch Ingraham" Cc: "Quartz" , "FreeBSD questions" Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 14:29:05 -0000 On Thu, August 6, 2015 8:20 pm, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 08:00:12PM -0400, Quartz wrote: >> >can you get a >> >dmesg that will advise of the processor attributes? You're looking for >> >"LM," (long mode). If that is there, it is a 64-bit processor. >> >> Does that work on linux? I can't get a dmesg off bsd until I figure out >> how >> to boot it. Also, where exactly am I looking? On a different machine >> running >> FreeBSD the only thing in dmesg I see that looks right is "AMD >> Features=0x20100800". Is that the right line? >> > Seems everyone has a different concept of what should be in a dmesg. > Linux may or may not have this info - my Slackware does not seem to, but > it does have enough processor information () to > search the web for that particular processor's attributes. > > If you have Linux running, will also work. cat /proc/cpuinfo comes to my mind for Linux. Never heard about . Is it one of commands you can use on Linux box? What one need to install to have this command? Valeri > > Freebsd's dmesg at the "Features" and the "AMD Features" you cited will > contain that info, and yes, that "LM" means long mode, or in other > words, x86_64. > > A decent explaination is here: > > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/43539/what-do-the-flags-in-proc\ > -cpuinfo-mean > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++