From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 15 03:37:17 2009 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 A94DD1065692 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:37:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lordofhyphens@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f203.google.com (mail-qy0-f203.google.com [209.85.221.203]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A89D8FC08 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk42 with SMTP id 42so381535qyk.28 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:37:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2KH9oB1Lp3IJy2gIQLXwDCRWgU1arSf7u7+0m/zbfyA=; b=P+/eOzz4GWOpfu5hSoyuE1//IYNhcp2Uh6F4eeWUcE3z2SC1qpVhNippO8wa6CTT/w 3tm3yWuHAMGSV/maYLFkPyD0w5tebZRojkY2XmfRgIigjNG5lkCn72xCiCmT6U2vh0we U82bnLpew+CkS6UxU3bEhCfuvRV1ylvUwd9N0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hwqs5n8f47DETdMmDiQJCHsE3EgMZqUUnfHSiNAHlUY6GAmo+7p9BUlFhlRn02JLMq QR691DPYrH3Hf8Nc8XZX+ALjf7KwD847U6Zs4koeCJdLdOBySgTXfdg65Wleuqni7T9f knHrMI/iHjBzOz6codak8jvLixJG1sgXlm3dA= Received: by 10.224.79.22 with SMTP id n22mr7832935qak.230.1255577836652; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:37:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.202? (173-24-127-191.client.mchsi.com [173.24.127.191]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm4796749qwb.42.2009.10.14.20.36.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:37:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AD698C1.3000004@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:36:33 -0500 From: LoH User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lconrad@Go2France.com References: <200910142248.AA63898478@mail.Go2France.com> <20091014211055.GD52151@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 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: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:37:17 -0000 Get cpuid from /usr/ports/misc/cpuid and run it, that should give you a better idea of what your processor is. Although, from the string you gave, looks like a 'yes'. I think that's a nocona xeon (I have a pair of gallatins). jhell wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:10, rsmith@ wrote: >> Yes. >> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:48:26PM +0200, Len Conrad wrote: >>> the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows: >>> >>> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-MHz 686-class CPU) >>> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1 >>> >>> Features=0xbfebfbff >>> >>> Features2=0x659d> >> >> You should be looking at the following line. LM means Long Mode, >> meaning it can >> run 64-bit instructions: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_mode]; >> >>> AMD Features=0x20100000 >> >> Roland >> > > My apologies to the original poster. I tend to usually mix up these > two arch's for some reason or another. Thanks to the second poster for > clearing that up. > > --