Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Nov 19 22:14:17 UTC 2009


Once upon a time, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> said:
> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 15:54 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> > I have a Thinkpad from early 2006 that is 32 bit only for example.  It
> > works perfectly fine, so I am in no hurry to replace it just because it
> > is only 32 bit.
> 
> see my 'oops' follow-up - I forgot to consider the first rev of the Core
> architecture, which was 32-bit only and current until Jan 2007. The
> follow-up 'Core 2' architecture was x86-64 capable. You probably have a
> Core Duo or Core Solo CPU in that thing.

I just checked, and it is actually a Pentium M (Dothan core).
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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