John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Carl Lowenstein wrote: >> Meanwhile here at home I am dithering about what to install on my new >> HP/Compaq laptop with AMD64 Turion X2 processor. I have just become >> confused by looking at the Debian web site on the "Debian on AMD64" >> page. I see this, partway down: >> - - - - - - >> Minimalistic AMD64 runtime support for i386 > > Let's re-title this: > > Minimalistic support for AMD64 cpus and binaries in i386 release >> The official i386 distribution actually includes minimalistic AMD64 >> support, consisting of a 64bit kernel, a toolchain able to create >> 64bit binaries and the amd64-libs package to run third-party amd64 >> binaries with native shared libraries. >> - - - - - - >> It confuses me greatly, since I don't know whether it is referring to >> what is called the AMD64 distribution, or to something else. Reading >> the AMD64 HOW-TO does not unconfuse me. > > Does that help clear it up? > > > Personally, I installed the AMD64 on my Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU. Works > fine! >
What would you say is/are the main thing[s] missing that would allow claiming "Full support for amd64 processors", in place of "Minimal.."? My understanding is that, despite some names and discussions including the "amd64" string, what is said about amd64 support applies to the Intel (core 2 duo, anyway) processors and environment, as well. Would you concur? Fedora (and others?) is/are using the "x86_64" term which I interpret as applying equally to amd64 and core2duo. Anybody wish to correct my interpretations here? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
