RE: i686 kernel on AMD Opterons

["Preston, Gabriel" <GPreston concordefs com>]

I thought you were able to run a 32 bit OS on top of the 64 bit processors
with no problems, its just that it wouldn't take advantage of the 64 bit
processor's abilities?  Someone who knows better might have something more
educated to say though.

-gabriel

-----Original Message-----
From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com
[mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com]On Behalf Of Erik Espinoza
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 3:43 PM
To: David Aquilina; Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Subject: Re: i686 kernel on AMD Opterons


Running a 32 bit kernel on a 64 bit userland (and vice versa) doesn't
work. Someone at work had a few bright ideas, none of which panned
out.


On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:33:11 -0400, David Aquilina <dwaquilina gmail com>
wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:11:15 -0700, Meher Shah <meher shah veritas com>
wrote:
> > Is that an supported configuration by Red Hat Support?
> 
> I don't believe we have an official position on it. As long as you
> were doing it on the x86 version of RHEL, I personally wouldn't
> complain. If you were trying to use the i686 kernel on the x86_64
> version of the distribution, however, we would probably have issues
> with that.
> 
> * Note that these are just my personal opinions, and I am not acting
> as an official representative of Red Hat in any way, shape, or form. I
> just happen to work here. All standard disclaimers apply.
> 
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