What Intel Chipsets run 64bit Linux?

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Mon Jun 4 03:41:07 UTC 2007


clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> A very dumb question, but then having had a REAL 64 bit
> machine on my desk years ago (an alpha)  Ive never been
> impressed with the Intel/AMD implementations of '64bit'.
> 
> So, what Intel chip sets qualify to run 64 bit Linux.
> 
> If I look at /proc/cpuinfo, what does it have to say?

I googled this recently.   I think the flag you are looking for is "lm".
 If that flag is present, you can run x86_64....(or not if you choose
not to).

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