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Cc: Wiktor Niesiobedzki <bsd@w.evip.pl>,
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Subject: Re: 64-bit support on VIA C7 - on FreeBSD 8.0
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On Thursday 03 December 2009 01:35 pm, Wiktor Niesiobedzki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm owner of a new VIA SN10000 mini-ITX mainboard which comes
> together with VIA C7 processor. During boot it is detected as:
> CPU: VIA Esther processor 1000MHz (997.51-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "CentaurHauls"  Id = 0x6a9  Stepping = 9
>  
> Features=0xa7c9baff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PG
>E,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,PBE>
> Features2=0x181<SSE3,EST,TM2>
>   VIA Padlock Features=0x3fcc<RNG,AES,AES-CTR,SHA1,SHA256,RSA>
>
> As far as I understand, this processor should support 64-bit mode
> and I should be able to boot amd64 FreeBSD.

No, C7 does not support long mode.  New Nano family does.

Jung-uk Kim