Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:03:05 +0000 From: "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64) Message-ID: <bef9a7920709290903q3ab2a7e3x22de338ecd6af49e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44r6khh4xh.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> References: <bef9a7920709262135l1daa6a45k3a2fc492f8711d42@mail.gmail.com> <44r6khh4xh.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan>
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I have more then 4gb and was wondering why it didn't all show up.... is there anyway to do a in place upgrade (I have a lot of user data)... also someone should think about changing the naming on the iso/cpu types since 20 years of industry experience (15 with FreeBSD) and reading hardware.txt did not give a clue on this. --Aryeh On 9/29/07, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> writes: > > > Currently I have done a build/installworld build/install/kernel using > > a i386 CPUTYPE (w/ SMP and APIC set in the kernel (I am using the > > default sys/i386/conf/GENERIC) do I need to change this to amd64 for a > > intel duo e6850? (I have had several seemingly unrelated problems > > that no one seems to be able to reproduce)... btw it is a P35 chipset > > It should work fine with either. With large amounts of memory (over 4 > gigabytes), amd64 will be better. There are a few (mostly desktop-only) > ports that will run on i386 but not on amd64. > >
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