amd64 or i386 on PE 1850 Intel Xeon with EMT64
Scott Long
scottl at freebsd.org
Thu Dec 23 13:14:46 PST 2004
Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> amd64 on intel? I dont think it would work.
>
> You should use i386.
>
> To use amd64, you should get an 64bit AMD processor like AMD Athlon 64
> http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_9484,00.html
>
No, this is not correct. The EM64T 'extentions' from Intel implement
the amd64 ISA. To answer the original question, FreeBSD/amd64 runs fine
on EM64T processors.
Scott
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