> >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?
> Hans du Plooy wrote: > >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. On 11.11.06 11:09, Marko Randjelovic 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. Are you sure? 3DNow! instructions are vector instructions, they aren't usually used in ordinary code. -march=athlon64 (and k6,k7/athlon) doesn't necessarily mean that the gcc will use those instructions... -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. (R)etry, (A)bort, (C)ancer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
