Xeon 64-bit?

[klussier at comcast.net]

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From: "Thomas Charron" <twaffle at gmail.com>
> 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.

It may be unified with options in the kernel config. I was looking through the package archives, and I'm not seeing any kernels listed as em64. I see plenty that are amd64, though. I'm downloading the kernel source now to see what the configuration options are. 

Thanks,
Kenny