Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 23:07:56 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: kalin m <kalin@el.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 ?! Message-ID: <483DC9AC.1000003@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <483DC6FA.7020100@el.net> References: <483DC6FA.7020100@el.net>
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kalin m wrote: > hi all... > > i have dilemma. > > i asked a hosting faclity to set up freebsd 7 on new server. and i > mentioned that it should be 64 bit. > now they when i get into the machine i get: > srv391# uname -a > FreeBSD srv391.carpathiahost.com 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun > Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008 > root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > i did ask for an intel machine and the dmseg actually states: > > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz (1997.01-MHz > K8-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x10676 Stepping = 6 > > Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> > > > Features2=0xce33d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,<b19>> > > AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM> > AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> > > > so i'm a bit confused about the the 64 bit and why the machine is > identifying itself as amd64 and not i686? amd64 is the architecture name (since it was invented by AMD; just like i686 is named after Intel even if you are running CPU implementations by amd, cyrix, etc). Kris
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