Xeon 64-bit?

[Mark Komarinski]

On 07/09/2007 11:52 AM, Thomas Charron wrote:
> On 7/9/07, Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org> wrote:
>> As others have said, you want the amd64 version.  The kernels are
>> unified now, so the same kernel will work on an amd64 or em64t system.
>> Same as all other applications.
>
>  They unified the em64 and amd64 *kernel*?
>
>  Last I'd checked, they use the amd64 distributions, but there where
> different kernel optimizations between amd64 and em64 kernel options.
>
This happened about 2.6.17 (on Debian anyway).  I haven't checked, but I 
assume the kernel figures out which CPU you have and changes things 
accordingly.  The differences are minor, as I did have 2.6.(<17) amd64 
kernels running on em64t systems without problems.

-Mark