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Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64



On 07/04/2017 02:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2017-07-04 20:19 +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote:

On 04-07-17, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2017-07-04 17:33 +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote:

Several. To see your cpu, type lscpu. Architecture is first in output.

That's not correct, or at least not useful.  The architecture is what
uname(2) reports, and if the system is currently running a 32-bit
kernel, it will be "i686" no matter if the processor is 64-bit capable.

The information about the latter is in the "Flags:" field of the lscpu
output.  If it contains the "lm" (for "long mode[1]") flag, you have an
x86_64 processor.

Thank you for correction. But what about second field in output, where
you have CPU op-mode? Should it be both 32-bit and 64-bit for 64-bit
capable and just 32-bit for i686?

Most likely.  Definitely the former, cannot test the latter without
digging out my old laptop from 2006 which is the only 32-bit x86
machine I own.


For both my machines lscpu reports:
Architecture:          i686
CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:            Little Endian
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