is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

jhell jhell at DataIX.net
Thu Oct 15 00:41:51 UTC 2009


On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:10, rsmith@ wrote:
> 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
>

My apologies to the original poster. I tend to usually mix up these two 
arch's for some reason or another. Thanks to the second poster for clearing 
that up.

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