Bug 102148

Summary: The description of which Intel chips have EM64T is out of date
Product: Documentation Reporter: mwm
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Murray Stokely <murray>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description mwm 2006-08-16 15:20:14 UTC
	The HARDWARE.TXT file on the 6.1 RELEASE cd uses out of date
	text to describe which Intel processors support EM64T. It ignores
	newer processors with EM64T support, and is factually wrong, as some
	of those chips have model numbers that the text claims don't have
	EM64T support.

Fix: 

Suggested new text:
	
	All Intel Core 2 (not Core Duo) and later processors will have
	EM64T support. All Pentium D processors have EM64T support.
	All multi-core Xeons except Sossaman have EM64T support. The
	single-core Xeons with EM64T support are Nocona, Irwindale,
	Potomac and Cranford.  Pentium 4s and Celeron Ds using the
	Cedar Mill core have EM64T support. Pentium 4s and Celeron Ds
	with the Prescott core all have EM64T support in the core, but
	it is not enabled in all of them. There is no easy way to
	describe which Prescotts have EM64T enabled; see Intel's docs at
	http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/reseller/asmo-na/eng/new/182403.htm
	for details.
How-To-Repeat: 	Read http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-amd64.html,
	and http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/reseller/asmo-na/eng/new/182403.htm
	for more current information. Note in particular that the
	freebsd page says that 5xx processors do not support EM64T,
	but the Intel page says that the 521, 551, 561, 571 (but not
	the 511) do have that support.
Comment 1 Ceri Davies freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-10-08 18:28:20 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-amd64->freebsd-doc

Docs pr, one for a mamber of re, please.
Comment 2 murray.stokely 2008-12-15 03:51:36 UTC
After 2 years the description is even more out of date.  Here is a
proposed patch :

http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/patches/hardware-amd64.diff

       - Murray
Comment 3 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-12-17 03:25:08 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->patched

Commited to head.  Will insta-mfc to 7.x and 7.1 branches momentarily. 



Comment 4 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-12-17 03:25:08 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->murray

Commited to head.  Will insta-mfc to 7.x and 7.1 branches momentarily.
Comment 5 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-12-17 03:58:11 UTC
State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

MFCed to 7.x-STABLE and 7.1 release branch.  Thanks for the update. 
Please take another look at the hardware notes and let us know if you 
can think of other improvements.