Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-15 Thread Ross Cameron
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com wrote: Does it matter whether I run IA64 or AMD64 in the above Dell 1850? You wont even et IA64 booting as that is a compilation for Itanium processors. For the 64bit enabled Xeon processors Intel licensed the AMD64 instruction

RE: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-15 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
Does it matter whether I run IA64 or AMD64 in the above Dell 1850? Len This is a case where I wish the architecture types were renamed to modern day nomenclature. Most people outside the *nix world know i386 as the x86 architecture and AMD64 as either x86-64 or straight x64. IA64 is

Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-14 Thread jhell
No you want: IA64 not AMD64 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/ On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:48, lconrad@ wrote: 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

Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-14 Thread Roland Smith
Yes. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:48:26PM +0200, Len Conrad wrote: 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

Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-14 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:08 PM, jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: No you want: IA64 not AMD64 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/ On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:48, lconrad@ wrote: the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-MHz

Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:08:23PM -0400, jhell wrote: No you want: IA64 not AMD64 No, he does not want that. IA64 is for Intel's Itanium CPUs which are only used in a few big servers and just about nowhere else. The below is an ordinary x86 CPU (which the Itanium most certainly is not.)

Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-14 Thread jhell
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:10, rsmith@ wrote: Yes. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:48:26PM +0200, Len Conrad wrote: 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

Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-14 Thread LoH
Get cpuid from /usr/ports/misc/cpuid and run it, that should give you a better idea of what your processor is. Although, from the string you gave, looks like a 'yes'. I think that's a nocona xeon (I have a pair of gallatins). jhell wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:10, rsmith@ wrote: Yes. On