On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I just got a new system for testing LFS builds. It is a Intel 3.2GHz P4 > system with "EM64T" technology. It came with RH Enterprise 3.0 "for > AMD64 and EM64T" preinstalled.
8-D > > I'm not really sure what the EM64T technology does, except Googling > around seems to indicate that there is something about allowing more > than 4G memory (32 address bits?). uname -a gives: > > Linux lfs5 2.4.21-15.EL #1 SMP Thu Apr 22 00:09:47 EDT 2004 x86_64 > x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > I believe there may be internal kernel differences in _how_ things work, particularly for addressing high memory, but with any recent 2.6 kernel it should just work. Linuxhardware did a comparison back in February: http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/24/1747228 Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
