svn commit: r186205 - stable/7/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware
Murray Stokely
murray at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 16 19:48:35 PST 2008
Author: murray
Date: Wed Dec 17 03:48:35 2008
New Revision: 186205
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/186205
Log:
MFC: r186204
Update the list of Intel chips with EM64T for FreeBSD/amd64 and
increase the known maximum memory configuration from 8gb to 32gb.
Approved by: re (hrs)
Modified:
stable/7/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml
Modified: stable/7/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml
==============================================================================
--- stable/7/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml Wed Dec 17 03:24:55 2008 (r186204)
+++ stable/7/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml Wed Dec 17 03:48:35 2008 (r186205)
@@ -92,21 +92,40 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>&intel; 64-bit &xeon; (<quote>Nocona</quote>).
- This processor is fabricated on 90nm process technology, and operates
- with 2.80 to 3.60 GHz (FSB 800MHz) and &intel; E7520/E7525/E7320 chipsets.</para>
+ <para>All multi-core &intel; &xeon; processors except
+ Sossaman have EM64T support.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>&intel; &pentium; 4 Processor supporting &intel; EM64T
- (<quote>Prescott</quote>).
- This is fabricated on 90nm process technology,
- uses FC-LGA775 package, and operates with 3.20F/3.40F/3.60F GHz
- and &intel; 925X Express chipsets.
- The corresponding S-Spec numbers are SL7L9, SL7L8, SL7LA, SL7NZ, SL7PZ,
- and SL7PX. Note that processors marked as 5xx numbers do not support
- EM64T.</para>
+ <para>The single-core &intel; &xeon;
+ processors <quote>Nocona</quote>, <quote>Irwindale</quote>,
+ <quote>Potomac</quote>, and <quote>Cranford</quote> have
+ EM64T support.</para>
</listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>All &intel; Core 2 (not Core Duo) and later
+ processors</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>All &intel; &pentium; D processors</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&intel; &pentium; 4s and Celeron Ds using
+ the <quote>Cedar Mill</quote> core have EM64T
+ support.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Some &intel; &pentium; 4s and Celeron Ds using
+ the <quote>Prescott</quote> core have EM64T support. See
+ the <ulink url="http://processorfinder.intel.com">Intel
+ Processor Spec Finder</ulink> for the definitive answer about
+ EM64T support in Intel processors.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
<para>&intel; EM64T is an extended version of IA-32 (x86) and
@@ -115,7 +134,7 @@
<quote>64-bit extension technology</quote> or <quote>IA-32e</quote>.</para>
<para>The largest tested
- memory configuration to date is 8GB. SMP support has been
+ memory configuration to date is 32GB. SMP support has been
recently completed and is reasonably robust.</para>
<para>In many respects, &os;/&arch.amd64; is similar to &os;/&arch.i386;, in
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