A stupid 64bit question ... but ...

[Marc G. Fournier]

Thanks, neither AMD or LM are found ... oh well, the new server will be 
EM64T ... was just hoping on this one :)


On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 06:50:55PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>> I recently bought a new Intel Xeon server, and when I put it together, I
>> didn't realize that the newer Xeon's were 64bit ... now, I've just built
>> perl 5.8.7, and its reporting:
>>
>> =================
>> # perl -v
>> This is perl, v5.8.7 built for i386-freebsd-64int
> ..
>> I realize that this  may be a stupid question, but am I correct in that
>> *this* is a 64bit machine, and I should be enabling the AMD64 stuff on
>> her?
>
> Perl won't be reporting a 64-bit capable machine, when running a 32-bit
> OS.  Look in /var/run/dmesg for 'AMD Features' to report 'LM' (long
> mode).
>
> -- 
> -- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)
>
>

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