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Re: Best Kernel?



On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 02:18:39PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
> Kelly Clowers wrote:
> > The cpuid program should be able to tell you if you have a 32 bit
> > Sempron or a 64 bit Sempron. Even if you have a Sempron64, I
> > am not sure if you can/should run a 64 bit kernel while using
> > Debian's i386 arch.
> 
> No, you need to use a complete 64bit userland for using amd64,
> translation: You have to reinstall your machine.

No, I believe that the 64-bit kernel + 32-bit userland is a valid option
in Debian.  That's why there's a 64-bit kernel in i386.

Doug.



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