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Date:      Fri, 07 Aug 2015 15:17:00 -0400
From:      Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 64bit P4 vs mfsBSD
Message-ID:  <55C5042C.3040101@sneakertech.com>
In-Reply-To: <slrnms9umd.1krp.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <55C3D434.6030005@sneakertech.com> <8BCBAC22-6B6F-4385-8D0F-ACE59D996FD9@elde.net> <slrnms9umd.1krp.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>

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>> If you look up the id from cpuid on ark.intel.com, you should get
>> a definitive answer.
>
> If you look up the Atom E6xx CPUs (used e.g. in the Soekris net6501),
> that site claims that they are 32 bits only.  In reality, these
> CPUs do support 64-bit mode, as numerous owners can testify to.
>
> As other people have said, the presence of long mode in the CPU ID
> flags tells the true story.

While we're at it, intel's util says this is a P4 541 and that it's 
family 15 model 4 (a claim shared by every OS I've run on it) whereas 
wikipedia claims the 541 is family 15 model *3*.




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