From 880f392f480e0436bbac16d3efe60466fc61fc6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gavin Atkinson This page contains information of the FreeBSD port to AMD's AMD64 and Intel®
- 64 architecture. The
+ 64 architecture, often also known as The
AMD64 architecture was previously known as x86-64
or
+ x64
. &os;/amd64 is suitable for almost all recent
+ AMD and Intel CPUs.Hammer
.
The Intel 64 architecture was previously known as Yamhill,
Clackamas Technology (CT), IA-32e, and EM64T (Extended Memory 64-bit
- Technology). Generically, the platform is often known as
- x86-64
or x64
.
The AMD Opteron™, AMD Athlon™ 64, AMD Turion™ - 64 and newer AMD Sempron™ processors use the AMD64 +
Newer AMD Sempron™, the AMD Opteron™, AMD Athlon™
+ 64, AMD Turion™ and AMD Phenom™ processors, and processors
+ with AMD Bulldozer
and Bobcat
cores all use the AMD64
architecture.
The Intel vPro™, Intel Celeron D (some models since Prescott
),
Intel Centrino® Duo, Intel Centrino® Pro,
Intel Viiv™, Intel Core™2 Extreme, Intel Core™2 Quad,
Intel Core™2 Duo, Intel Xeon (3000-sequence, 5000-sequence, and
- 7000-sequence) processors use the Intel®64 architecture.
FreeBSD/amd64 runs in 64-bit multiuser mode, in both Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor mode.
-The AMD64 platform is currently a The AMD64 platform is a Tier 1 FreeBSD platform.