On 10/23/2011 11:10 AM, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> On Sun, October 23, 2011 11:24, HATANO Hiromichi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> ATOM E6xx series does not have Intel64 capability.
>> However, according to CPU feature flag, it seems to be able to use Intel64.
>>
>> # cpuctl identify 0
>> cpu0: Intel Pentium Pro, II or III (686-class), 1600.11 MHz, id 0x20661 
>> cpu0: features
> 0xbfe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>  cpu0: features 
> 0xbfe9fbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX>
>> cpu0: features 0xbfe9fbff<FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF>
>> cpu0: features2 
>> 0x40e3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MONITOR,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM>  cpu0: 
>> features3 0x20100000<XD,EM64T>
>> cpu0: "Genuine Intel(R) CPU        @ 1.60GHz"
>> cpu0: I-cache 32KB 64B/line 8-way
>> cpu0: Initial APIC ID 0
>> cpu0: Cluster/Package ID 0
>> cpu0: SMT ID 0
>> cpu0: family 06 model 06 extfamily 00 extmodel 02
>>
>> NetBSD/amd64(64bitOS) booted on my net6501-70.
>>
>> Did Intel change specification?
>> May you think that the 64-bit mode operates even if BIOS will be updated 
>> from now on?
> you can run amd64 code ?
>
> for me that's great news if so :)
>
> thanks,
>
> matheus
>

I somewhat absent-mindedly went to install CentOS on my 6501-70, and did 
so by loading the 64-bit kernel + initrd. It worked, no problem...

--Kyle
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