From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 26 11:12:32 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 CADC1106567A for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:12:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from s.kachelmann@googlemail.com) Received: from hu-out-0506.google.com (hu-out-0506.google.com [72.14.214.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CBFE8FC2B for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:12:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from s.kachelmann@googlemail.com) Received: by hu-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 34so15339hue.8 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:12:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=8hjjwraVx6l1T9ZX9HLSoTA20lHFW16XOkA/c1+3cjk=; b=f09jmGpXunljuB0VQncH7uwoz/sM43vcE1ZlZsZ9SPrJOblAgbawQHpqYvHVeEqRHc SOQQrikJwuc3LVECjk1CJSXNZGeceRP3hiIMGc/sCOuEXDrF2YDvyBHTLJo5LAoJM5kB cjAY8UxiJ3QGjh3l47Rkh/F/9KtHmTAs8Sw/c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=MmOQxszq5oIQUM9LiTWhLcQe01UdmtYwQaPSsjoBOVBnXq7mK9m1zTvrEyhHNmQeQJ NbV37WCMCN4cl6DQXV642WA6v/gXhxm0fo9Al50aIn2msgot8RoIlGbiJ5VMcsG0EBMk ivxfjFxhb2spWoi37CSavhju5iOwuHbzzwP5g= Received: by 10.210.10.1 with SMTP id 1mr2790413ebj.167.1214477766504; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:56:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.53.12 with HTTP; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:56:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <91b92520806260356id3c9a2bxa50b0814c12ec7dc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:56:06 +0200 From: "Sandra Kachelmann" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Is FreeBSD i386 64bit? 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, 26 Jun 2008 11:12:32 -0000 Coming from the Linux world I am pretty new to FreeBSD, please bare with me= . I find the FreeBSD handbook pretty useful and I just managed to update 7.0-RELEASE to 7-STABLE from source. I have an Intel core4quad CPU and was wondering if I now have a 64bit FreeBSD. I am a bit confused because from /usr/src/sys/ I only see the directories amd64, ia64 and sparc64 with the number 64 in it. Another question, is setting CPUTYPE advised or discouraged? I am aware about problems if you mix binaries built with different CPU flags; not a problem for me because coming from Gentoo I am used to build everything myself. Sandra -- Mit freundlichen Gr=FCssen Sandra Kachelmann