On Fri 20 Jun 2003 15:48, Levi Ramsey posted as excerpted below:
On Fri Jun 20 17:50 -0400, David Walser wrote:
I'm with you. My current plan is to get a dual AMD64 workstation inThe Athlon 64 will run 32-bit apps natively. I've heard that in 32-bit
December. I hope to be able to run Cooker on it.
it'll be at least as fast as an Athlon XP at the same clock.
Thanks everyone. Glad I'm not the only one..
However, given the current leaks (HP, as covered in either the Register or ArsTechnica) which (at least currently) put the actual clock of the sampling units @ 1.6, with a plus rating about the same as current Athlon-32s, will there be any point in purchasing an Athlon-64 JUST to put 32-bit code on it? Isn't that sort of like the single passenger SUVs we seem to have so many of here in Arizona? In that case, wouldn't I be better off running dual Athlon-32s?
Anyway.. it would seem there's at least SOME interest in Athlon-64s cookerized AS 64s, NOT 32s. I suppose given the financial situation I can understand a reluctance to release Cooker for it, at least this year (perhaps if it takes off next), but as I said, if so, it's going to cause some reevaluation of my plans, ability to run 32-bit code on the 64s or not. Maybe I'll stick with the 64s after all, maybe I'll go 32s, maybe I'll try out that Gentoo everyone talks about, or maybe.. I'll compile from SRPMs, since it shouldn't be all that difficult and it'd be kinda nice to say I was running code I'd entirely compiled myself.
If Mdk doesn't do it directly, is there any interest in forming a grassroots organization to spread the load around a bit, as has been discussed for other platforms earlier in the thread?
There is a dual opteron box at CSC. See:
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/DevelNetOutline
We are setting it up so cooker can build on it. If we're lucky, we'll have slbd running on it to build cooker 24*7. Hopefully we'll also be able to upload the resulting packages to mdk and perhaps those will be mirrored. Just like what we are doing with the alpha port at this moment.
If you're interested, you may want to participate in this (if you have: time, hardware or bandwidth).
regards,
Stefan van der Eijk
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