AMD64 Linux documentation
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Thu Dec 11 23:53:19 UTC 2003
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 18:47, Gene C. wrote:
> Not surprised about the G5 or the Power4. However, the AMD64 is the only
> architecture that Red Hat currently is trying to support dual architecture
> under a single OS (If you ignore the i386/i586/i686/athlon support). The
> problem is that with the AMD64 you want most of the packages in the
> distribution to be 64 bit with support to run other (user) 32 bit
> applications.
Incorrect, we do similar on zSeries (s390x is 64-bit with 31-bit
compatibility) and i/pSeries (userspace is mostly 32-bit with some
64-bit compatibility at present) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Cheers,
Jeremy
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