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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:34:10
Message-Id: 200803061017.24415.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips by Neil Bothwick
1 On Wednesday 05 March 2008 18:08:33 Neil Bothwick wrote:
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3 > Run lshw and look at the width value for the CPU.
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5 I'd forgotten about lshw - thanks for the reminder.
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7 At the risk of a thread hijack, what should I do about this, which is shown
8 for both CPU's:
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10 *-cache:2 DISABLED
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12 Does that mean the hardware feature is unavailable in these Opteron 246s, or
13 that I've overlooked a kernel config parameter? I don't remember any
14 motherboard jumpers for it.
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18 Peter
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