Re: does Debian labeled for AMD-64 run on Pentium cpu family 6?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 27 May 2011 13:13:25 -0300, tarcisio praciano-pereira wrote:

> 2011/5/27 William Hopkins <we.hopkins@gmail.com>
> 
>> On 05/27/11 at 12:50am, tarcisio praciano-pereira wrote:
>> > I have a Pentium cpu family 6 (copy from /proc/cpuinfo) model 23 -
>> > Dual Core, cpuid level 13.  I hope I have no missed the important
>> > information.
>> >
>> > Does Debian 6.0 labeled for AMD-64 run in this CPU?
>>
>> To see if your CPU is 64-bit, look for the lm tag in cpuinfo The AMD64
>> architecture is for any 64-bit CPU other than the Itanium family, and I
>> am reasonably sure if you had an Itanium you would know it.

> Thanks for your answer.
> I found  this which is "non-sense to me":

That "non-sense" are the capabilities of your processor.
 
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe *lm
> constant_tsc *arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3
> cx16 xtpr  lahf_lm

Are the asterisks (*) manually added by you?

> Sorry for this repeated question and for my ignorance regarding this
> simple detail.
> 
> Well, this who asks wants to learn....

File "cpufeature.h" (not localizable in my system) holds some data:

http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.32/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón