[geeks] FreeBSD, the saga continues

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Wed Mar 11 07:42:36 CDT 2009


Michael-John Turner wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:50:32PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> As far as I can figure out, the fact that they're 3.2GHz Socket 604
>> processors with hyperthreading and SSE3 support mean they pretty much
>> have to be either Nocona or Irwindale 90nm architectures.  The AMD NX
>> feature, I think, narrows them down to Irwindales.  2 CPUs are detected,
>> which rules out Dempseys.  So I think I'm looking at Irwindale
>> architectures here, RK80546KG0882MM, which SHOULD support 64-bit.
> 
> http://processorfinder.intel.com/ may be useful here. I filtered on Xeon,
> 3.2Ghz, HT and NX (Execute Disable) and all three of the returned CPUs
> support EMT64.

Yes.  Yet none of the three are listed as Socket 604, or have the right
processor ID (0xf41h), which is puzzling.


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