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Date:      Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:46:45 -0400
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FWD: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?
Message-ID:  <20091015144645.GC54613@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200910151513.AA205456278@mail.Go2France.com>
References:  <200910151513.AA205456278@mail.Go2France.com>

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On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 03:13:49PM +0200, Len Conrad wrote:

> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From:  "Len Conrad" <lconrad@Go2France.com>
> Reply-To:  <lconrad@Go2France.com>
> Date:  Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:48:26 +0200
> 
> the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows:
> 
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf41  Stepping = 1
>   Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>   Features2=0x659d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,EST,TM2,CNTX-ID,CX16,<b14>>
>   AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>
>   Logical CPUs per core: 2
> real memory  = 3220963328 (3071 MB)
> avail memory = 3150913536 (3004 MB)
> ACPI APIC Table: <DELL   PE BKC  >
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
>  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
>  cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
>  cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  6
>  cpu3 (AP): APIC ID:  7
> ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 8
> ioapic1: Changing APIC ID to 9
> ioapic1: WARNING: intbase 32 != expected base 24
> ioapic2: Changing APIC ID to 10
> ioapic2: WARNING: intbase 64 != expected base 56
> ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
> ioapic1 <Version 2.0> irqs 32-55 on motherboard
> ioapic2 <Version 2.0> irqs 64-87 on motherboard
> 
> thanks,
> Len
> 
> ==============
> 
> So, is there a definite, unique answer? 

Yes.

> 
> Does it matter whether I run IA64 or AMD64 in the above Dell 1850?
> 

Yes.
Run AMD64.   It is not an Itanium which is the IA64.  It is a I686
which is the long standing ...86 family which, in 64 bit is supported
on FreeBSD by AMD64.

////jerry


> Len
> 
> 
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