On Mar 31, 2005 10:25 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > 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 > > Has anyone looked at this type of system for LFS? Since the RH version > has a 2.4.21 kernel, I intend to use the LFS CD which does boot just fine. > > Any suggestions or comments will be appreciated. > > -- Bruce > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
EM64T is Intel's version of AMD's AMD64/x86_64 system. They are compatible with each other (for the most part at least). I think that the Intel chips don't have as much of a 64 bit instruction set, but mostly just have the ability to handle more memory. I may be wrong though. Anyways, for LFS you can either use x86, which should run fine, or the x86_64/AMD64 info that has been popping up should work as well if you want to build a 64bit system. As far as kernel goes, I think there are some improvements for this chip in 2.6 kernels over what 2.4 contains. Again, I'm mostly guessing off of what I recall from a long time ago. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
