Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64

From: Diego Calleja García
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 09:39:50 EST


El Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:56:44 +0100 Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> From what I can see from these docs, Intel's "IA-32e" is very very close
> to the natural combination of P4 with AMD64. No hyperlink stuff, but
> otherwise the same. The local APIC and performance counters should be
> exactly as in P4 :-)

Does that mean that the opteron-based distros will be able to run
their x86-64 kernelspace/userspace in intel micros without modifications,
or only the userspace?


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