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Tom Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 11:12 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
>   
>> According to Tom Evans:
>>     
>>> iirc the Intel D820 isn't 64bit capable, so it would be unreasonable to
>>> run 7.0/amd64 on it ;)
>>>       
>> Here is what is displayed at boot-time.  What should indicate it does
>> support EM64T (or not)?
>>
>> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (2793.09-MHz 686-class CPU)
>>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf47  Stepping = 7
>>   Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,C
>> MOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>>   Features2=0x641d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,CNTX-ID,CX16,<b14>>
>>   AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>
>>   AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
>>   Cores per package: 2
>>
>>     
>
> My mistake, I thought the D820 didnt have EMT64 support - according to
> wikipedia it does. I'm still not sure what feature signifies EMT64(?)
>   
EMT = Extended memory technology. A fancy phrase meaning 64-bit support 
(in terms of the amd64 architecture).
-Garrett