בFriday 30 April 2004 20:15, נכתב על ידי Adir Abraham:
> > there already a 64bit opteron kernel?
>
> Yes. There's even a distribution (Gentoo). Check this:
> http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo/releases/amd64/2004.1/livecd/install-amd64-u
>niversal-2004.1.iso
>
> Just download, burn, boot, and follow th
On Friday 30 April 2004 17:57, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > an Opteron machine, how x86 is it? I understand it's supposed to be
> > fully backwards compatible. does it mean I can just take an x86 regular
> > 32 bit kernel and binaries and run on it? is 64bit an option or a must?
> > how does it mix? c
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Ira Abramov wrote:
> Someone just asked me and I didn't know what to tell him...
>
> an Opteron machine, how x86 is it? I understand it's supposed to be
> fully backwards compatible. does it mean I can just take an x86 regular
> 32 bit kernel and binaries and run on it? is 64b
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Ira Abramov wrote:
> Someone just asked me and I didn't know what to tell him...
>
> an Opteron machine, how x86 is it? I understand it's supposed to be
> fully backwards compatible. does it mean I can just take an x86 regular
> 32 bit kernel and binaries and run on it? is 64b
There's some information about it here:
http://lwn.net/Articles/79036/
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Now, if 64bit is anything like it, you actually can't mix them in the
same process. Too much work to switch between them. Different memory
addressing modes, etc.
I think that's the reason - different and incompatible modes.
I distinctly remember this in the context of why A
Ira Abramov wrote:
Quoting Tzafrir Cohen, from the post of Fri, 30 Apr:
As for mixing 32bit and 64bit: AFAIK you can't mix 32bit and 64bit code
in the same process. Thus a 32bit binary needs a separate set of
libraries. Other than that, it works just as well.
umm... why? the CPU doesn't rea
Quoting Tzafrir Cohen, from the post of Fri, 30 Apr:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:03:13PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote:
> > Someone just asked me and I didn't know what to tell him...
> >
> > an Opteron machine, how x86 is it? I understand it's supposed to be
> > fully backwards compatible. does it me
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:03:13PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote:
> Someone just asked me and I didn't know what to tell him...
>
> an Opteron machine, how x86 is it? I understand it's supposed to be
> fully backwards compatible. does it mean I can just take an x86 regular
> 32 bit kernel and binaries
