amd64 ?!

[Erik Trulsson]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 04:56:26PM -0400, kalin m wrote:
> hi all...
> 
> i have dilemma.
> 
> i asked a hosting faclity to set up freebsd 7 on  new server.  and i 
> mentioned that it should be 64 bit.
> now they when i get into the machine i get:
> srv391# uname -a
> FreeBSD srv391.carpathiahost.com 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun 
> Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008     
> root at driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> i did ask for an intel machine and the dmseg actually states:
> 
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz (1997.01-MHz 
> K8-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x10676  Stepping = 6
>   
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>   
> Features2=0xce33d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,<b19>>
>   AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
>   AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
> 
> 
> so i'm a bit confused about the the 64 bit and why the machine is 
> identifying itself as amd64 and not i686?

Looks fine to me.  It is obviously the amd64 version of FreeBSD (which is
64-bit), which works just fine on that Intel CPU since all Intel's recent
CPUs implement the AMD64 (aka x86-64) architecture.  Intel calls it EM64T
(unless they have changed it again) instead of AMD64, but it is the same thing.






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Erik Trulsson
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