Stupid Question

[Steve Kargl]

On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 01:48:48PM -0700, Cartoon Factory wrote:
> 
> I have a stupid question. I am looking at the processors supported by
> FreeBSD, and I see AMD64 (which I know is AMD) and ia64 (which I have no
> clue what it is).

ia64 == Intel Itanium

> I am looking at getting a new server, with a XEON processor.
> 
> My confusion is two-fold. One, they say the processor is 32/64. Can FreeBSD
> use the 64 aspect of this? And if so, is it ia64, or under i386?
> 

If the XEON is an EM64T processor, then you want to use
FreeBSD-amd64 to harness the 64-bit nature of the processor.

-- 
Steve