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Date:      Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:42:53 -0500
From:      "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
To:        "Andy Reitz" <reitz@eecs.cwru.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: migrating to 64-bit
Message-ID:  <ef10de9a0606210342y67ff7c61le018aa6ffdd48313@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060621011340.GI11625@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>
References:  <20060620233551.GG11625@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <Pine.SOL.4.53.0606201958420.14129@brak> <20060621011340.GI11625@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>

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On 6/20/06, Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> On 20/06/06 Andy Reitz said:
>
> > I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not
> > sure of the i386 version will install on Itanium. Are you referring to the
> > AMD64/EMT-64 port of FreeBSD?
>
> It's a 64-bit P4. My i386 5.4 install works fine.
>

IA64 = Itanium, Itanium2 = FreeBSD/ia64
EM64T = Intel CPUs with AMD64 (P4, Xeon, etc.) = FreeBSD/amd64
AMD64 = Opteron, Athlon 64, Turion 64, Sempron 64 = FreeBSD/amd64

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM64T

Why do you need to run in 64-bit mode?

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