another way to test is to run a livecd in amd64 mode on new intel chips
if it doesn't work, try the ia64 version

if it doesn't work ... your intel is a 32 bits version :)



Le Wednesday 05 March 2008 16:47:10 kashani, vous avez écrit :
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Sometime in the last month someone posted (in a thread that went wildly
> > OT) a definite way to determine if an Intel cpu is 32 or 64 bit.
> > Unfortunately I can't find the post anymore.
> >
> > It involved checking the cpu-family, model and flags fields in cpuinfo.
> >
> > Could that same kind soul please repost the info? And if possible the
> > same for AMD?
>
> cat /proc/cpuinfo and look for lm, which stands for long mode, under the
> flags. I'm pretty sure that works for Intel and AMD.
>
> kashani


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