Can an old Mac Pro Xeon be updated to 10.9

Can anyone tell me if a Mac Pro Xeon dual core 2.66 processor can run Mountain Lion OS

Mac Pro 1,1 (2006) and Mac Pro 2,1 (2007):
Sorry, No. 10.7 is the latest you can run, because those models do not have a reliable way to update their firmware to support 64-bit kernel, required for later Mac OS X.

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