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Re: 64-bit-ness?



>> So I guess it's generally EM64T, but with some, presumably only a
>> few, processors not reporting themselves as EM64T-capable even
>> though they actually are.
> I've not 100% followed what you have checked, but it might just be
> that the old kernel doesn't know about the bit?

All of these have been with basically the same kernel code, certainly
the same when it comes to i386/i386/identcpu.c and
x86/include/specialreg.h.  It's been the hardware that's different.

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