On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 09:21 -0400, Alvin Thompson wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 20:23 -0500, William Tetrault wrote: > > Some semprons are 64-bit enabled - these can use amd64 profiles if you want > > the 64-bit capabilities. The others should stick to athlon-xp profiles and > > their related make flags. > > interesting, thanks! how do i know if mine is 64-bit enabled? it's an > eMachines M5414 (they apparently produced around 12 of them :). this is > what /proc/cpu says: > > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > vendor_id : AuthenticAMD > cpu family : 15 > model : 8 > model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+ > stepping : 2 > cpu MHz : 798.356 > cache size : 256 KB > fdiv_bug : no > hlt_bug : no > f00f_bug : no > coma_bug : no > fpu : yes > fpu_exception : yes > cpuid level : 1 > wp : yes > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge > mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext 3dnowext > 3dnow > bogomips : 1585.15 > > it's actually 1.6 GHz throttled down. so if it's 64-bit enabled can i > use the 64-bit version of linux? what make options should i use? > > thanks, > alvin >
It looks like it's not. My cpuinfo has this: address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual -- Daniel Gryniewicz Gentoo AMD64 Team / Gentoo Gnome Herd / AMD64 Operational AT Lead -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
