Re: Pentium-D support

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:45:43PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Okay, unless I can find an Intel-64 build of Fedora I'll have to do it 
> myself, but now that I know what option to use it's possible. Trust 
> Intel to have a 64 bit standard which isn't Itanium and isn't ..quite.. 
> AMD compatible.

It should be instructionset compatible (at least almost) but
optimization wise it is different since it is a very different design.

Certainly Debian's amd64 runs on both just fine, but recomends different
kernel builds for each (but also has one generic that runs on both).

Len Sorensen
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