Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:18:19 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelmann@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD i386 64bit? Message-ID: <20080626111819.GA61949@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <91b92520806260356id3c9a2bxa50b0814c12ec7dc@mail.gmail.com> References: <91b92520806260356id3c9a2bxa50b0814c12ec7dc@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:56:06PM +0200, Sandra Kachelmann wrote: > 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. FreeBSD i386 is 32-bit. For 64-bit you will want the amd64 variant. (Yes, it will work on Intel's 64-bit x86 CPUs as well. It is called amd64 because AMD defined the architecture and thus got to name it, and then Intel copied it.) > > Another question, is setting CPUTYPE advised or discouraged? Generally 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. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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