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Subject: Re: Is it possible to debug an AMD kernel on Intel
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Kip Macy wrote:

>but we are in a small minority in using AMD instead of x86_64 or
>64-bit intel. 
>
Hum, those Ubuntu people who are building vmware images are minority as well
http://isv-image.ubuntu.com/vmware/
and their daily build farm team too...
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

I'm with you Kip, its a problem. But not really fixable in a manner that 
is really correct as long as you can buy 64bit iA64 and x86_64 based 
intel motherboards, just saying intel64 bit is not an absolute value.