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Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Wed Jul 6 19:42:26 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 14:56 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> I'm confused. I think I missed the point of your original question.
> The only real benefit of running the 32 bit kernel is if you have
> some 32 bit application that doesn't work under 32bit-emulation of
> the 64bit kernel.  There really shouldn't be that many of these.

Heh, no.  What I meant was, on a 32bit platform, is there benefit to
running a smp kernel on a UP system?  Because it technically is an
x86_64 processor, it is just not running in x86_64 mode.

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