Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
> Not absolutely sure, but I think the flag "lm" in /proc/cpuinfo may
> indicate that you've got a 64-bit capable processor.
> /usr/include/asm-i386/cpufeature.h has a line that says
> 
> #define X86_FEATURE_LM          (1*32+29) /* Long Mode (x86-64) */
> 
> Looking on google it seems that Long Mode is indeed 64-bit mode.
> (Differing from Real Mode 16-bit and Protected Mode 32-bit)


Cool, that seems to be consistent across all of the various machines,
regardless if I only have a 32bit kernel installed.

Thanks for the suggestion!


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