On Tuesday 15 June 2010 10:21:06 Paul E Condon wrote: > But for these packages, if the > instruction set for the two classes of chip are the same, what is it that > is different from the point of view of the kernel software requirements?
The micro-architecture. Basically, how the instruction set is implemented in transistor layouts inside the IC. Instruction ordering is part of it. (Also, the instruction set used by -686 packages is actually larger than the instruction set used by -484 packages.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [email protected] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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