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Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64



On 2017-07-04 18:39 +0000, Curt wrote:

> 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?

You can look up the 'flags' field in /proc/cpuinfo, if your version of
lscpu does not print this information.

Cheers,
       Sven


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