64-bit Kernel Question

[James Hubbard]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Petrus de Calguarium
<kwhiskerz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have seen many mentions of the default kernel in Fedora 11 being the 64-
> bit kernel for all hardware that supports it. How do I know if my hardware
> supports it? I have an Intel dual core processor. Does that mean I could
> install the 64-bit kernel? I am presently using the PAE kernel. An article
> suggested that this is for "older" hardware. My processor is definitely not
> 'older'.

grep /proc/cpuinfo lm

If you have the lm flag, it means your hardware supports x86-64.