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64-bit NetBSD confirmed working on Intel's latest 64-bit enabled CPUs
Intel tried to run their own 64bit CPU with the Itanic^WItanium, but
that didn't work out, so they have now adopted the instruction chip
extensions from AMD, producing fully 64-bit enabled Pentium 4 (EMT)
and Xeon CPUs. Of course such a 64bit CPU wants to run an operating
system in real 64bit mode, and after first examples of these CPUs are
available, NetBSD/amd64(!) can be confirmed working on these CPUs.
See a posting from Havard Eidnes for dmesg output
of a IBM x306 including Gigabit Ethernet (wm0, wm1) and Serial ATA
(piixide0).
[Tags: amd64, em64t, Hardware]
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