Re: Opteron Binaries.

2004-05-02 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Friday 30 April 2004 17:57, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: an Opteron machine, how x86 is it? I understand it's supposed to be fully backwards compatible. does it mean I can just take an x86 regular 32 bit kernel and binaries and run on it? is 64bit an option or a must? how does it mix? can old

Re: Opteron Binaries.

2004-05-02 Thread Oded Arbel
Friday 30 April 2004 20:15,Adir Abraham: there already a 64bit opteron kernel? Yes. There's even a distribution (Gentoo). Check this: http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo/releases/amd64/2004.1/livecd/install-amd64-u niversal-2004.1.iso Just download, burn, boot, and follow the instructions.

Re: Opteron Binaries.

2004-05-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
There's some information about it here: http://lwn.net/Articles/79036/ Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage:http://shlomif.il.eu.org/ Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum

Re: Opteron Binaries.

2004-05-01 Thread Adir Abraham
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Ira Abramov wrote: Someone just asked me and I didn't know what to tell him... an Opteron machine, how x86 is it? I understand it's supposed to be fully backwards compatible. does it mean I can just take an x86 regular 32 bit kernel and binaries and run on it? is 64bit

Re: Opteron Binaries.

2004-05-01 Thread Orna Agmon
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Ira Abramov wrote: Someone just asked me and I didn't know what to tell him... an Opteron machine, how x86 is it? I understand it's supposed to be fully backwards compatible. does it mean I can just take an x86 regular 32 bit kernel and binaries and run on it? is 64bit

Opteron Binaries.

2004-04-30 Thread Ira Abramov
Someone just asked me and I didn't know what to tell him... an Opteron machine, how x86 is it? I understand it's supposed to be fully backwards compatible. does it mean I can just take an x86 regular 32 bit kernel and binaries and run on it? is 64bit an option or a must? how does it mix? can old

Re: Opteron Binaries.

2004-04-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:03:13PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: Someone just asked me and I didn't know what to tell him... an Opteron machine, how x86 is it? I understand it's supposed to be fully backwards compatible. does it mean I can just take an x86 regular 32 bit kernel and binaries and

Re: Opteron Binaries.

2004-04-30 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Tzafrir Cohen, from the post of Fri, 30 Apr: On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:03:13PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: Someone just asked me and I didn't know what to tell him... an Opteron machine, how x86 is it? I understand it's supposed to be fully backwards compatible. does it mean I can

Re: Opteron Binaries.

2004-04-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Tzafrir Cohen, from the post of Fri, 30 Apr: As for mixing 32bit and 64bit: AFAIK you can't mix 32bit and 64bit code in the same process. Thus a 32bit binary needs a separate set of libraries. Other than that, it works just as well. umm... why? the CPU doesn't

Re: Opteron Binaries.

2004-04-30 Thread linux-il
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Now, if 64bit is anything like it, you actually can't mix them in the same process. Too much work to switch between them. Different memory addressing modes, etc. I think that's the reason - different and incompatible modes. I distinctly remember this in the context of why