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On Oct 5, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Bob Bishop wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> On 5 Oct 2012, at 21:23, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>=20
>> With Atom processors you're pretty much stuck with i386, in part =
because amd64 emulation mode still sucks a lot.
>=20
> Can't agree with that in general, we've had no problems with the D525 =
running amd64 (mainly for the benefit of ZFS). It probably depends =
exactly which Atom you are looking at - they differ quite a bit.

	Ok. The generation I'm running at least (D4xx) seemed to have =
issues with amd64 emulation (slow). Also, some/many PCHs/boards don't =
support over 4GB with Atom, which is a bit discouraging if you're trying =
to go 64-bit.
Thanks,
-Garrett=