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Re: How to recognize an Intel with EM64T extensions enabled?



Le samedi 05 février 2005 à 02:23 +0000, Paul Brook a écrit :
> On Saturday 05 February 2005 02:00, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> > Is there a way to figure, on a running system, if the processor features
> > the EM64T extensions?
> 
> uname -m tells you if you're running an x86-64 kernel.
I don't want to know things about the system (the system in a x86 32bits
Debian), but about the actual CPU in the machine.

> The "lm" flag in /proc/cpuinfo tells you if the cpu is 64-bit (long mode) 
> capable.
I guess it won't work if the kernel is not already compiled for x86-64.

> Paul




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