AMD- XP

[Erik Trulsson]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:52:59AM -0800, Michael wrote:
> Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:25:23 -0800 (PST), j p <jayncali61 at yahoo.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >
> >>i have a AMD XP 2200 chip. what version of freebsd i need to download.
> >
> >
> >You want the i386 distribution.  The Athlon XP is still only a 32-bit
> >processor, so the amd64 is unusable.
> >
> I'm thinking about installing 5.3 on box with an AMD Sempron 2800.  I 
> think (?) that the Sempron is based on a 64-bit core.

I am fairly certain that the Sempron (which is AMD's name for their low-end
series of CPUs) does not support 64-bit programs or OS.
It might be based upon the same core as the Athlon64 CPUs, but that
does not mean it is a 64-bit CPU.  (The extra stuff needed to support
64-bit instructions is after all a fairly small part of the core.)


> 
> So would I use the amd64 version?

No. You should use the i386 version.

The AMD CPUs that implement the AMD64 architecture are the Opteron and
Athlon 64 (incl. Athlon 64FX ) series.
The Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon MP, Duron, and Sempron do not, but are
just normal 32-bit CPUs.


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