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[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:16:51AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
 > 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)

should work just fine, though I've not done a 32bit install on x86-64
for a long time (probably FC2 era).

		Dave