"Ralf S. Engelschall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006, Simon J Mudd wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> > On a side-note I don't know what the rpms come out with a
> > amd64-rhel4-ope suffix as the server has twin 3GHz Xeon processors.  This 
> > is a bit confusing[1].
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] PKG]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name"
> > model name      :                   Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
> > model name      :                   Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
> > model name      :                   Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
> > model name      :                   Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
> 
> Well... it outputs amd64 as 3.0 GHz Xeon CPUs have the EM64T extension
> and your OS runs in x86_64 (aka amd64) mode, so GNU shtool recognizes it
> as the amd64 platform (which is not really wrong here as EM64T is the 64
> bit extension which Intel licensed from AMD AFAIK).

True. It just seems strange to tag rpms as AMD when the CPUs are Intels.

Thanks anyway.

Regards,

Simon
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