Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:42:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Remi <MrL0L@charter.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20040630183927.C66769@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <391q2v$239uih@mxip18a.cluster1.charter.net> References: <391q2v$239uih@mxip18a.cluster1.charter.net>
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Remi wrote:
> Just to clarify exactly what you mean. I can the x86 version of BSD with no
> changes to the BIOS, jumpers or anything on an AMD64?
No hardware changes necessary. The OS has to write to a CPU register to
enable AMD64 native ("Long") mode; without the write, it acts just like
any other i386 CPU.
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