Re: EM64T Machine available for porting
* Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> [2005-03-15 23:09]:
> > It would be nice if someone could re-build the whole archive since
> > this would give the box some good stress testing.
>
> I'm not sure why you're asking this? Is it because it's an Intel?
Yes.
> Do you think it's going to behave differently than an AMD chip?
No, but building the archive would give us more evidence. Also, it
stress tests the hardware and kernel and I assume (w/o checking) that
there are some differences in the kernel support for Intel and AMD
x86_64 chips.
I know most of the AMD64 work has already been done on AMD hardware,
and I'm grateful for that work. But I obtained this EM64T box for
Debian so we can *test* whether Debian works rather than just assume
it will.
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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