X86_64 kernel doesnt install on 64bit(?) machine.

[Karl Larsen]

Reg Clemens wrote:
> There has been some discussion on this list as to what determines if you have
> an Intel 64bit machine or not.  Well, if I do cat /proc/cpuinfo I see:
>   
    When I do a cat /proc/cpuinfo I got this:

[karl at k5di ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 2000.074
cache size      : 128 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca 
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up cid
bogomips        : 4002.65
clflush size    : 64


Now the only 64 is in the clflush size thing and I did a long search 
with Google on what is clflush and got only that every cpu I looked at 
has clflush size as 64.

    Anyone here actually know how to determine a 64 byte cpu?

I thought not :-)


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