Thanks BSDfan66. I learned more about cpu instruction sets and the Via C7-D+ lacks the lm flag which is a good indicator of a x86_64 cpu. I'm not overly disappointed as I did not buy it as a x86_64 board although I now wish I had gotten an intel atom based system. The VT8237 southbridge also does not support 2 sata channels in OpenBSD. Old problem that persists
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