Re: Best Kernel?

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 09:12:21PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > 
> Well, if you install the 32bit userland + 64bit kernel + X.Org it wont
> work. :-)

Huh?  Perhaps you should send the message to the amd64 list.  Someone
there is probably doing this.

Doug.