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Possible Duplicate: What do the flags in /proc/cpuinfo mean? I tried installing CentOS 6.3 on my computer only to see a complaint that my computer doesn't have PAE. I am not sure if my computer ...

How can I find out that my CPU supports 64bit operating systems under Linux, e.g.: Ubuntu, Fedora?

I'm confused. Running Fedora Linux, lscpu yields: Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit ... But when I try to install a 64-bit program (Chrome) I get error like: ...

On a Debian Stretch and testing/Buster system with a current kernel and installed microcode I still see meltdown and spectre listed as bugs in /proc/cpuinfo. However, running the spectre-meltdown-...

AMD, Intel, Red Hat, and SUSE have defined a set of "architecture levels" for x86-64 CPUs. For example x86-64-v2 means that a CPU support not only the basic x86-64 instructions set, but also ...

Does Arch Linux work on my i386 cpu. I read on its website that it's optimized for i686, does it mean Arch Linux won't work on i386. By the way, I don't want to compile it, I want to use the ...

According to tests the Mac Mini 3,1 CPU is 64-bit (grep -q "^flags.*\blm\b" /proc/cpuinfo) and supports Intel virtualization extensions (grep -q "^flags.*\bvmx\b" /proc/cpuinfo). However, after ...

We can examine /proc/cpuinfo on Intel and ARM machines to learn cpu features, like AES and SHA. I need to do the same for PowerPC under both AIX and Linux. Testing with Linux is shown below. The ...

CentOS 6.9 showed the following CPU flags in /proc/cpuinfo: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm ...

More recent AMD CPUs have a feature named Secure Memory Encryption SME which if available can be explicitly be enabled by adding this parameter to linux' command line. mem_encrypt=on (according to ...

I'm looking for a linux tool similar to a cpuid dumper but with a capability to read all of a processor's possible model-specific registers's and outputting them. Does such a tool exist? I'm hoping ...

I need to find out in my script if a (potentially legacy) CPU supports dynamic speed setting, and eventually get value of maximum and current speed. What makes it more complicated is that I need to ...

I'm more and more getting into trouble with my Debian 32 bit system, since some software such as the signal messenger are not written for 32 bit anymore. Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/...

In the /proc/cpuinfo, we can see a number of CPU flags regarding one's own hardware, providing information regarding the processor instructions set (cf What do the flags in /proc/cpuinfo mean?). Is ...