What is the earliest x86 64bit CPU we support?
Justin M. Forbes
jforbes at redhat.com
Mon May 21 17:16:34 UTC 2012
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 10:41 -0400, Tom Callaway wrote:
> So... what is it?
>
> I think the earliest is the AMD Opteron (2003).
>
> >From a "earliest in each family" perspective, I think the answer is:
>
> AMD: AMD Opteron (2003).
> Intel: Intel Xeon (Nocona) (2004)
> VIA: VIA Nano (2008)
>
> Excluding Itanium (thank god), are there any other early x86 64bit CPUs
> that I'm missing or any that we explicitly no longer support?
>
> ~tom
I still have one of the original Opteron boards here, it is supported
fine (though heats the room). AFAIK there aren't any true x86_64 CPUs
that we don't support.
Justin
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