On Wednesday 06 September 2006 14:39, Friedrich Göpel wrote: > On 9/6/06, Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am wondering if I should run x86 an an athlon 64. I am upgrading my > > win box to athlon x2 4600 and I'll use the old athlon 64 for gentoo. > > Does using x86 make the 64 athlon act as 2 processors (what config is > > needed) If it will act like 2 processors is that faster or slower than > > using the 64 setup? > > Running 64 or 32 bit kernel and/or userland has absolutely nothing to > do with enabling smp support in the kernel, which seems to be what you > meant. > Perhaps I didn't express myself correctly. I thought that you could rum an athlon 64 as 2 32's enabling smp and installing all programs under x86. If this is correct I would like to know the correct steps to take. i.e. would I need to start from scratch or use my current setup and compile the kernel (as what?)
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