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On 17/05/2012 21:34, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On May 17, 2012, at 15:27, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> 
>>> That's kind of what I was trying to say (very badly as it turned out).
>>>
>>> I can't find the OS X equivalent of:
>>>
>>> `egrep '(vm|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo`
>>>
>>> which although it is strictly speaking the way of finding out if your
>>> box is capable of hardware virtualization, is also useful as a sure fire
>>> way of knowing if your kernel is 64-bit.
>>
>> Is sysctl viable for that?
>> hw.optional.x86_64: 1
> 
> I was not aware of that sysctl variable but it appears to be accurate, though 
> only for Intel machines of course. The one MacPorts base itself uses (to 
> determine the default build_arch) is hw.cpu64bit_capable which should work on 
> PowerPC machines as well. Note that this works on Leopard and up only.
> 
> 
> For your amusement, here are a few values from a few different systems I have 
> access to:
> 
> 
> MacBookPro3,1, a 64-bit machine with the 32-bit kernel:
> 
> $ uname -p
> i386
> $ uname -m
> i386
> $ sysctl hw.cpu64bit_capable
> hw.cpu64bit_capable: 1
> $ sysctl hw.optional.x86_64
> hw.optional.x86_64: 1
> $ 

[snip]

I get exactly the same on a MacBookPro4,1

Cheers,

  Phil...

- -- 
But masters, remember that I am an ass.
Though it be not written down,
yet forget not that I am an ass.

        Wm. Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing


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