Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 17:45:55 -0700 (PDT) From: stheg olloydson <stheg_olloydson@yahoo.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does the AMD64 version of FreeBSD run on this? Message-ID: <20040807004555.14650.qmail@web61303.mail.yahoo.com>
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it was said: >On Aug 6, 2004, at 2:42 AM, Massimiliano Stucchi >wrote: > >> On 050804, 20:58, Brett Glass wrote: >>> http://eetimes.com/semi/news/showArticle.jhtml?>articleID=26805631 >> >> You should look at the IA64 port, not the AMD64. >> > >Why? This Intel chip referenced is NOT an IA64 >architecture. It is >Intels EM64T 64/32 bit architecture based on Xeon/P4 >and "compatible" >with the AMD64 stuff > >Chad Hello, Actually, what it says is, "Intel's extensions, which it first used in the Xeon and are called EM64T, are compatible with AMD's extensions." I wouldn't infer that to mean more than it says: Intel's _extensions_ are compatible AMD's _extensions_. A quick experiment would tell. Because these same extensions exist in the Xeon, by your reasoning, the AMD64 codebase should run on a Xeon platform, nee? Regards, Stheg __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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