Re: K8 Kernel Image
On 09/03/07 02:41:29AM +0200, Sascha Conradi wrote:
> Robert Edmonds schrieb:
> >On 2007-09-02, Sascha Conradi <DAD923@freenet.de> wrote:
> >>The AMD64 is a 64bit image!!!
> >>so you need the 64bit libs and by the way the old sempron without 64bit
> >>extension is allso K8
> >>
> >>So this is not usable for some users with only 32bit cpu.
> >
> >All 32 bit semprons are K7, not K8. All 64 bit AMD CPUs are >= K8.
> >
> Excuse me, but thats not right..
>
> The Sempron was sell in three diferent versions of design and features.
>
>
> Sempron in K7 design,
>
> Sempron in K8 design but without the 64bit extensions.
> - Paris/Paris-128 (Revision CG),
> - Georgetown/Georgetown-128 (Revision D0),64bit is possible but it isn't
> often activated
>
> Sempron in K8 design with 64bit extensions.
> - Palermo (Revision E3), from this time it was called Sempron64 and it's
> a full featured K8/AMD64
>
>
> So there exists some K8 Sempron CPUs without 64Bit.
>
> By the way, some time ago i was using a little Sempron in my notebook.
> And of course it was a K8, but no 64bit!
>
Assuming that they do indeed call those chips K8s, what would be gained by
having anther kernel flavor for them instead of running the k7 or 686
builds already available?
Jim.
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