migrating to 64-bit

[Nikolas Britton]

On 6/20/06, Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> On 20/06/06 Andy Reitz said:
>
> > I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not
> > sure of the i386 version will install on Itanium. Are you referring to the
> > AMD64/EMT-64 port of FreeBSD?
>
> It's a 64-bit P4. My i386 5.4 install works fine.
>

IA64 = Itanium, Itanium2 = FreeBSD/ia64
EM64T = Intel CPUs with AMD64 (P4, Xeon, etc.) = FreeBSD/amd64
AMD64 = Opteron, Athlon 64, Turion 64, Sempron 64 = FreeBSD/amd64

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

Why do you need to run in 64-bit mode?

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