On 04-07-17, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2017-07-04 17:33 +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > > > On 04-07-17, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I have been running Debian i386 since Squeeze. At that time it was required > >> as I was considering supporting some donated 32 bit machines at church. I > >> don't recall what processor was in my personal machine at that time. I've > >> never had cause to investigate the processors in my current laptops and > >> desktop machines. They all happily run i386. > >> > >> Is there a utility that will report my hardware configuration/capability? > >> > >> TIA > >> > > > > Several. To see your cpu, type lscpu. Architecture is first in output. > > That's not correct, or at least not useful. The architecture is what > uname(2) reports, and if the system is currently running a 32-bit > kernel, it will be "i686" no matter if the processor is 64-bit capable. > > The information about the latter is in the "Flags:" field of the lscpu > output. If it contains the "lm" (for "long mode[1]") flag, you have an > x86_64 processor. > > Cheers, > Sven > > > 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_mode >
Thank you for correction. But what about second field in output, where you have CPU op-mode? Should it be both 32-bit and 64-bit for 64-bit capable and just 32-bit for i686?
