RE: i686 kernel on AMD Opterons

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

Gotcha, yes.  I misunderstood what was being asked.  Sorry about the
confusion there.

-gabriel

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com]On Behalf Of David Aquilina
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 3:56 PM
To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Subject: Re: i686 kernel on AMD Opterons


On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:49:00 -0400, Preston, Gabriel
<gpreston concordefs com> wrote:
> 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?  

You are correct, however we're speaking of using a 32 bit kernel,
while the rest of the OS is expecting a 64 bit one.

-- 
David Aquilina, RHCE
dwaquilina gmail com


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