Re: AMD64 Linux documentation

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 18:47, Gene C. wrote:
> Not surprised about the G5 or the Power4.  However, the AMD64 is the only 
> architecture that Red Hat currently is trying to support dual architecture 
> under a single OS (If you ignore the i386/i586/i686/athlon support).  The 
> problem is that with the AMD64 you want most of the packages in the 
> distribution to be 64 bit with support to run other (user) 32 bit 
> applications.  

Incorrect, we do similar on zSeries (s390x is 64-bit with 31-bit
compatibility) and i/pSeries (userspace is mostly 32-bit with some
64-bit compatibility at present) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 

Cheers,

Jeremy