On Mon, October 24, 2011 11:40, Michael Stone wrote: > 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.
hail, I assume I can use larger int types, so my counters will count longer. I tested pfsense 2.0 on net5501-70, and works great. Can't wait to use amd64 pfsense 2.0 on it :) matheus -- We will call you cygnus, The God of balance you shall be A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
