From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 17 21:12:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ABA8106564A for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:12:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) Received: from mail.netconsonance.com (mail.netconsonance.com [198.207.204.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F040A8FC15 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:12:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) Received: from [10.66.240.161] (public-wireless.sv.svcolo.com [64.13.135.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.netconsonance.com (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n5HLC9pX056691; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:12:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at netconsonance.com X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.169 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.169 tagged_above=-999 required=3.5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.44, AWL=0.270, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001] autolearn=disabled Message-Id: <692568B0-E684-4136-9DF0-62ED40675365@netconsonance.com> From: Jo Rhett To: Nate Eldredge In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.4) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:16:00 -0700 References: <500D653E-E4EE-4E49-94C3-E12754919DA4@netconsonance.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.4) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cpu does not support long mode X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:12:12 -0000 On Jun 17, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Nate Eldredge wrote: > So it appears that you really do have a 32-bit machine on your > hands. Sorry :( No worries. I have a bunch of Opteron machines too ;-) But these were sitting around bored and thus handy. > This was some interesting research, by the way: I learned something > about CPU history, and the horrific mess that is Intel's part > numbering system. omg yes. I spent probably 2 hours doing the exact same trace you did. I pulled the chips and used those numbers to get info pages from Intel which contained... nothing. It was amazingly bad. I did learn a lot though :-( -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness