Will 7-beta amd64 run on the old xeon?
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
wearabnet at yahoo.ca
Sat Nov 17 10:22:39 PST 2007
----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell at salford.ac.uk>
> To: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <wearabnet at yahoo.ca>
> Cc: Artem Kuchin <matrix at itlegion.ru>; freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 8:01:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Will 7-beta amd64 run on the old xeon?
>
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
>
> > It should work with i386 at least.
> > I have dual Xeon 2.8 EM64 and I use i386 with it.
> >
> >
>
> Features=0xbfebfbff
> V,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> > Features2=0x641d
> > AMD Features=0x20100000
>
> According to the last post; the LM feature above, means you can
> run
>
amd64
> on your CPU i.e. it's not the same as the OP's cpu?
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - The University of Salford
Hello,
It could use AMD64 but it was running 6.2 i386 so I just upgraded it to RELENG_7 i386 since it has 2 GB of ram only.
Regards,
-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Arab Portal
http://www.WeArab.Net/
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