is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

[Roland Smith]

Yes.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:48:26PM +0200, Len Conrad wrote:
> the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows:
> 
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf41  Stepping = 1
>   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=0x659d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,EST,TM2,CNTX-ID,CX16,<b14>>

You should be looking at the following line. LM means Long Mode, meaning it can
run 64-bit instructions: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_mode];

>   AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>

Roland
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