XEON 5050 and FreeBSD

[Fred Cox]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM64T

"Extended Memory 64-bit Technology (EM64T) is Intel's
implementation of AMD64, a 64-bit extension to the
IA-32 architecture."

The latest Xeons use AMD extensions to get 64 bits. 
So you tell FreeBSD you have an AMD chip.  Check
/var/run/dmesg.boot to see what it thinks it is.  For
example, my desktop Intel dual core 64 bit Pentium
says it's a K8 class CPU, K8 being the AMD name for
the Opteron architecture.

--- Roman Lyashenko <roman787 at ukrintell.com.ua> wrote:

> >On 9/9/06, Roman Lyashenko <
>
<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware>
> roman787 at
> ukrintell.com.ua> wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Does anybody know if FreeBSD supports new Intel
> 64-bit  dual-core
> XEON
> >> 5050 or maybe going to support in the future?
> >>
> >
> >As Mike said, just a new CPU, which, by the way, is
> seen as 4 CPUs,
> >because of its dual core and hyper-threading
> technology, as far as I
> >understand.
> >
> >
>
<http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/reseller/asmo-na/eng/products/server/pr
> ocessors/5000/feature/index.htm>
>
http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/reseller/asmo-na/eng/products/server/pro
> cessors/5000/feature/index.htm
> 
>  
> 
> Yes, it's true. But I as far as I know FreeBSD
> supports 64-bit
> architecture for Intel Intanium and AMD processors
> only. What about
> Xeon?
> 
>  
> 
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