Athlon 64 support? (multiple responses)

Dee-Ann LeBlanc dee at renaissoft.com
Tue Aug 26 20:52:07 UTC 2003


Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks at rogers.com> wrote:

> As far as the CPU instruction set is concerned Athlon64 and Opteron
> are identical as they are both AMD64 processors.

Good to know. :)

> At some point in the future there likely will be an AMD64 version of
> RHLP, as the community will likely build it if necessary.  However
> this won't happen in time for the release of Red Hat 10 given that
> Athlon64 is not yet available, and reportedly won't be available in
> volume for many months yet.

Oh sure, I didn't think it would be for 10. :) I'm asking in general. :)
> 
> However the normal version of Red Hat 9/10/etc. will work fine on an
> Athlon64 machine albeit without support for the new features of the
> AMD64 architecture (no 64bit stuff, no additional registers, etc).

Ah, okay, so that should be the same for any distro, really. Good good.
Hardware isn't my specialty, can you tell? :)

"Mike A. Harris" <mharris at redhat.com> wrote:

> It's unknown at this point in time wether or not an official 
> AMD64 release will be done for the RHLP.  That is yet to be 
> decided.

I expect I'll see something related to this asked in the next demo RHN
survey then. :)
> 
> On a personal note however, if an official release doesn't occur, 
> I will be volunteering personal time to work on a community 
> driven release along with other interested parties if possible.

Awesome. :)
> 
> Once the Athlon 64 consumer chip becomes available, I believe 
> that there will definitely be a quickly forming enthusiast 
> community for this new chip, and I know what OS I'd like to see 
> people running on it.  ;o)

Oh yes. I'm sure I won't be the only one salivating. :)
> 
> Of course this is all just personal speculation of my own, and I 
> do not speak for Red Hat in any way.

Understood!

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