Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64
On 2017-07-04, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> 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.
>
Why don't I have a 'Flags:' field?
curty@einstein:~$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
CPU family: 20
Model: 2
Stepping: 0
CPU MHz: 1300.000
BogoMIPS: 2594.41
Virtualization: AMD-V
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 512K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,1
>
> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_mode
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>
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