Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.
On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith <graham@crazysquirrel.com> wrote:
> Yes. The Althon 64 fully supports i386 through some fancy on chip emulation
> that is as fast as a native 32 bit chip (I think all the 64 bit processors
> you mention do this but don't quite me on that).
So I could do that by booting a normal i386 network-installation
bootable CD, and start with the i386 kernel, right?
In this case, would I be able to run OpenOffice, mplayer and flash
without difficulty from the binary packages?
Should this also work on Xeon and Opteron, and how do I choose between
the three processors?
>> In that case, which kernel flavour would I use?
>
> You have a wide range of choices. You can go pure 32 bit and install the
> standard i386 Debian, you can go mixed and have a 64 bit kernel an 32 bit
> user space or you can go pure 64 bit. I've never tried a mixed system but
> apparently it works fine.
>
> I'm running the 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8 kernel at the moment which is AMD64
> specific. If you are confused just go for one of the generic kernels.
Is there a table anywhere that lists processors by their common names
and tells which kernels will work on which ones?
Thanks,
Adam
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