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  <a href="../gifs/daemon_hammer.jpg"><img src="../gifs/daemon_hammer-tn15.jpg" align="right" border="0" alt="BSD Daemon swinging a sledge hammer"/></a>

  <p>This page contains information of the FreeBSD port to <a
      href="http://www.amd.com/">AMD's</a> AMD64 and <a
      href="http://www.intel.com/info/em64t">Intel&reg;
    64</a> architecture, often also known as <q>x86-64</q> or
    <q>x64</q>.  &os;/amd64 is suitable for almost all recent
    AMD and Intel CPUs.</p>

  <p>The
    AMD64 architecture was previously known as <q>Hammer</q>.
    The Intel 64 architecture was previously known as Yamhill,
    Clackamas Technology (CT), IA-32e, and EM64T (Extended Memory 64-bit
    Technology).</p>

  <p>Newer AMD Sempron&trade;, the AMD Opteron&trade;, AMD Athlon&trade;
    64, AMD Turion&trade; and AMD Phenom&trade; processors, and processors
    with AMD <q>Bulldozer</q> and <q>Bobcat</q> cores all use the AMD64
    architecture.</p>

  <p>The Intel vPro&trade;, Intel Celeron D (some models since <q>Prescott</q>),
    Intel Centrino&reg; Duo, Intel Centrino&reg; Pro,
    Intel Viiv&trade;, Intel Core&trade;2 Extreme, Intel Core&trade;2 Quad,
    Intel Core&trade;2 Duo, Intel Xeon (3000-sequence, 5000-sequence, and
    7000-sequence), and the Intel Core&trade; i range of processors use
    the Intel&reg; 64 architecture.</p>

  <h3>Status</h3>

  <p>FreeBSD/amd64 runs in 64-bit multiuser mode, in both
    Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor mode.</p>

  <p>The AMD64 platform is a <a
      href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html">Tier
      1</a> FreeBSD platform.</p>

  <h3>FreeBSD/amd64 Specific Resources</h3>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64">FreeBSD/amd64 mailing list</a></li>
  </ul>

  <h3>Other Links of Interest</h3>
  <h4>AMD64 Documentation</h4>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/32200.pdf">
      AMD x86-64 Architecture Specification</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/24592_APM_v1.pdf">
      AMD64 Architecture Application Programmer's Manual</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/24593_APM_v2.pdf">
      AMD64 Architecture System Programmer's Manual</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi.pdf">
      AMD x86-64 DRAFT Processor-specific Application Binary Interface Specification</a></li>
  </ul>

  <h4>Software Tools</h4>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.x86-64.org/downloads.html">Bochs and Simics
      Simulators and Tools</a></li>
  </ul>

  <h4>Related Projects</h4>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.amd64.org/">Linux / AMD64</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/Ports/amd64/">NetBSD/amd64</a></li>
  </ul>

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