From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 30 04:19:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4958016A45C for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:19:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dleigh@cs.rmit.edu.au) Received: from its-mu-mail4.its.rmit.edu.au (its-mu-mail4.its.rmit.edu.au [131.170.2.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F53943D48 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:19:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dleigh@cs.rmit.edu.au) Received: from wombat.cs.rmit.edu.au (wombat.cs.rmit.edu.au [131.170.24.41]) by its-mu-mail4.its.rmit.edu.au (8.13.1/8.13.1/mail4) with ESMTP id k0U4JUNX020422 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:19:30 +1100 (EST) Received: from yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (root@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au [131.170.24.42]) by wombat.cs.rmit.edu.au (8.12.10/8.12.10/cshub) with ESMTP id k0U4JUPq020071 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:19:30 +1100 (EST) Received: from yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (dleigh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.4/csnode) with ESMTP id k0U4JUDj010845 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:19:30 +1100 (EST) Received: (from dleigh@localhost) by yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3/Submit) id k0U4JTY1010843 for freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:19:29 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:19:29 +1100 From: Dylan Leigh To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060130041929.GA9866@cs.rmit.edu.au> References: <20060129120041.6FFDE16A422@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060129120041.6FFDE16A422@hub.freebsd.org> X-PGP-Fingerprint: D2B4 7C14 0C41 9AE5 8D2B 16B0 D3D6 F910 8E4C 5D35 X-PGP-Insecure-Machine: Yes X-RMIT-Student-Number: 3017239 X-Author-Webpage: http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 Subject: Re: version 6.0 and AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:19:35 -0000 --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Monday 26 December 2005 21:35, je killen wrote: > >> I purchased Version 6.0 from FreeBSD Mall and am now concerned > >> that the packaged system will work on AMD64 which I have, The > >> processor I have and want to use is socket 754, if it makes a > >> difference. > > > > Socket 754 is an amd64 socket, so that'll be fine (unless there > > are socket 754 Semprons without 64-bit? The AMD website doesn't > > say in so many words "this is not a 64-bit processor", but > > neither does it tout 64-bitness. In that case, it's not the > > socket type that's most interesting, but the CPU family (Athlon64 > > vs. Sempron) that is.). >=20 > Until summer 2005 semprons were 32bit only. I have 2 sempron 64bit > working with freebsd 6 amd64. On 754 there is no dual channel, > cache L2 is lower (256 on most recent semprons, 128 on olders vs > 512 and 1024 on 939 amd64) etc... > I'm also running amd64 on a 64 Bit Sempron. AFAIK Semprons with the letters "BX" at the end of their serial number are 64bit (these were made after July 2005). --=20 Dylan Leigh - http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/ --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (SunOS) iD8DBQFD3ZPRSzNTcqehJbMRAnj1AKCDwkG271gj3rl7FNeKGN7CQSwSgQCgwvMa eSGHfyiQIF3jF4iYfEqqecM= =x9HO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/--