On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:37:37AM -0800, Bill Broadley wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 01:06:23PM -0500, Mike Simons wrote: > > - Anyone played with a AMD Hammer system yet? > > Er, yes, did you have a question about them?
I was looking for a non-AMD performance opinion of them... compared to what's on the market now. > > - Seen anything about a Debian port to to the architecture? > > Not in particular, it should "just work" in 32 bit mode. If you want > full 64 bit mode (twice as many registers, 64 bit pointers, etc.), you > have to use a 64 bit kernel which is out. Check out: > http://www.x86-64.org Hrmmmm... so in theory by changing only the kernel boot disks you'd be able to install the i386 version, that interesting. - Does the kernel/hardware support running a mix of 32/64 bit applications? I suspect that a amd64 native (i386-64 or whatever name) port of the debian packages will be made, (kinda like sparc32, sparc64). So I'm wondering if anyone has heard of a group working on that... > I expect the x86-64 Opteron based servers to be announced sometime > in April. The Athlon 64 however has been rumored to have been delayed > till Sept. Well as long as they don't continue to delay the release for a multiple years like Intel did with the EPIC/ia64, AMD should be fine. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
