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[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 13:17 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> To take advantage of NX, you need PAE enabled, which means these
> kernels will need to run 686-smp even though they aren't smp.
> I'll probably be doing some lobbying in Jeremy's cube for an
> installer change on this hardware when I get some to test with.
> 
> Given that using NX on 32bit is a big win due to us being able
> to use sysenter again, this is a very attractive feature.
> 

What is the situation for x86_64 processors running in 32bit mode?  Is
it advantageous for Athlon64 32bit people to install the i686-smp kernel
today?  (yes there are good reason for me to be using 32bit on my
Athlon64)

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