Hans du Plooy wrote:
I run AMD Sempron CPU, but I think Debian amd64 works on Intel, too. If this is correct, they made things a bit confusing, since name amd64 should imply gcc switch "-march=athlon64". And "-march=athlon64" implies 3DNow! instructions that Intel doesn't support.On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 21:57 -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:Frustrating. Why didn't the Debian developers stick with the more correct x86_64 nomenclature that the Linux kernel team uses?I might be mistaken, but as far as I remember "amd64" is the name of the architecture that AMD developed (like i386 was designed and thus named by Intel). "x86_64" is the extentions that make the CPU compatible with the amd64 architecture. Hans