[ltp] What to take care of when buying a Lenovo?

David A. Desrosiers linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:28:04 -0400


On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 15:18 -0600, gervin23@fastmail.fm wrote:
> An easy way to determine 64bit or Intel Virtualization Technology
> (IVT) is to peek at the cpu flags line after issuing
> "cat /proc/cpuinfo" from the shell. Having 'lm' means you have 64bit
> while 'vmx' means you have IVT.

> My T60P has vmx but not lm:

My T61p has both: 

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 15
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7700  @ 2.40GHz
stepping        : 11
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cache size      : 4096 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 2
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 10
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3
cx16 xtpr lahf_lm ida
bogomips        : 4797.36
clflush size    : 64

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 15
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7700  @ 2.40GHz
stepping        : 11
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cache size      : 4096 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 2
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 10
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3
cx16 xtpr lahf_lm ida
bogomips        : 4788.09
clflush size    : 64



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