On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:27:17AM +0200, Aragon Gouveia wrote: >| By Kyle Brantley <[email protected]> >| [ 2011-10-23 20:50 +0200 ] >> I somewhat absent-mindedly went to install CentOS on my 6501-70, and did >> so by loading the 64-bit kernel + initrd. It worked, no problem... > >Do you (or anyone) think there are any advantages to running 64 bit on >a device like this? Seems like a waste of memory to me...
More registers. Whether the greatly improved register architecture outweighs the increased memory used for pointers depends on your application. Remember that unlike previous 32/64bit architectures, the x86 32 and 64 bit modes are radically different. Mike Stone _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
