Re: Will 7-beta amd64 run on the old xeon?

----- 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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