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Barring any BIOS issues a standard ia32 kernel will boot and run happily on an 
AMD64 processor.


			-Kip

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Mark wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org>
> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
> Cc: "Mark" <admin@asarian-host.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 12:14 AM
> Subject: Re: CPU update
> 
> 
> > On Wednesday 03 March 2004 06:02 pm, Mark wrote:
> 
> > > Dear Sirs:
> > >
> > > I compiled my FreeBSD 4.7R for an AMD XP-2000. If I upgrade to an
> > > AMD 64 3200, will my OS still run? The AMD 64 is 32-bit downwards
> > > compatible.
> >
> > Yes.  FreeBSD 5.x also supports amd64 natively.
> 
> Thank you for your answer.
> 
> Am I reading your "also" right, that you say, "Yes, 4.7R will run on the AMD
> 64 too; but only 5.x will support its native 64 bit mode support"?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Mark
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