64bit P4 vs mfsBSD

Christian Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Fri Aug 7 18:45:09 UTC 2015


On 2015-08-06, Terje Elde <terje at elde.net> wrote:

> If you look up the id from cpuid on ark.intel.com, you should get
> a definitive answer.

If you look up the Atom E6xx CPUs (used e.g. in the Soekris net6501),
that site claims that they are 32 bits only.  In reality, these
CPUs do support 64-bit mode, as numerous owners can testify to.

As other people have said, the presence of long mode in the CPU ID
flags tells the true story.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de


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