586 vs 686

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Feb 20 02:06:52 UTC 2009


Mike Chambers wrote:
> Mine is a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+, and pae is
> listed in the flags. Although I guess I would/should be using 64bit
> kernel once it's in the 32 bit os path?

Almost all (or even all?) x86_64 CPUs support PAE in 32-bit mode, so
enabling kernel-PAE on those should just work.

But why aren't you running 64-bit Fedora in the first place?

        Kevin Kofler




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