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I have an Intel Atom D2500 processor which the spec site claims it supports a 64-bit instruction set. However, cpuinfo shows this:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo | egrep "(processor|flags|address)"
processor       : 0
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 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts  nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm arat
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
processor       : 1
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 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts  nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm arat
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual

Does anyone know any way to enable the lm flag in the processor? So I can use a 64-bit kernel?

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    What motherboard to you have?
    – Brad Patton
    Mar 7, 2013 at 14:26

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You can really easily test this with any Live 64bit Linux distro. I can confirm that Linux Mint 15 64bit runs on D2500, but has really bad GPU artefact issues.

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    Well, it looks like it will depend on the motherboard manufacturer, so my MB did not supported long mode, and that why it did not work.
    – Vargas
    Nov 18, 2013 at 11:12
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    Precisely. For many features to work it needs support at all levels. Your CPU supports it, but motherboard (firmware) and OS also need to support it.
    – Hennes
    Aug 11, 2016 at 11:40

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