From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 21:14:20 2008 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 1C0961065674 for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 21:14:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D349A8FC0A for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 21:14:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-25-183.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.25.183]:52302 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K1SyQ-0002zx-6T for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 23:14:18 +0200 Received: (qmail 38476 invoked from network); 28 May 2008 23:14:16 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with ESMTP; 28 May 2008 23:14:16 +0200 Received: (qmail 33402 invoked by uid 1001); 28 May 2008 23:14:16 +0200 Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 23:14:16 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: kalin m Message-ID: <20080528211416.GA33336@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <483DC6FA.7020100@el.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <483DC6FA.7020100@el.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Originating-IP: 83.253.25.183 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1K1SyQ-0002zx-6T. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1K1SyQ-0002zx-6T 498bd976097de4cb9bf14046413a69c4 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Wed, 28 May 2008 21:14:20 -0000 On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 04:56:26PM -0400, 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 > > Features2=0xce33d> > AMD Features=0x20100800 > AMD Features2=0x1 > > > so i'm a bit confused about the the 64 bit and why the machine is > identifying itself as amd64 and not i686? Looks fine to me. It is obviously the amd64 version of FreeBSD (which is 64-bit), which works just fine on that Intel CPU since all Intel's recent CPUs implement the AMD64 (aka x86-64) architecture. Intel calls it EM64T (unless they have changed it again) instead of AMD64, but it is the same thing. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se