Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 01:46:21 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A stupid 64bit question ... but ... Message-ID: <20051205014553.T1077@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20051205030253.GC62285@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20051204184826.D1077@ganymede.hub.org> <20051205030253.GC62285@dragon.NUXI.org>
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Thanks, neither AMD or LM are found ... oh well, the new server will be EM64T ... was just hoping on this one :) On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 06:50:55PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >> I recently bought a new Intel Xeon server, and when I put it together, I >> didn't realize that the newer Xeon's were 64bit ... now, I've just built >> perl 5.8.7, and its reporting: >> >> ================= >> # perl -v >> This is perl, v5.8.7 built for i386-freebsd-64int > .. >> I realize that this may be a stupid question, but am I correct in that >> *this* is a 64bit machine, and I should be enabling the AMD64 stuff on >> her? > > Perl won't be reporting a 64-bit capable machine, when running a 32-bit > OS. Look in /var/run/dmesg for 'AMD Features' to report 'LM' (long > mode). > > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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