EM64T and linux

[Andrew Hammond]

HP sells a solid quad Opteron box, and if you don't require quad, the  
list grows from there. But, as I said before, if you don't _need_ 64  
bit, why bother?

Since you haven't said anything about what you plan to do with this  
box, it'd be silly to comment further.

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On 28-Apr-06, at 15:53, Phillip Qin wrote:

> But all the servers Dell offers use the EM64T. I have no choice.  
> The port does say “The port consists of kernels for all AMD 64bit  
> CPUs with AMD64 extension and all Intel CPUs with EM64T extension,  
> and a common 64bit userspace.”.
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> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of  
> Andrew Hammond
> Sent: April 28, 2006 3:38 PM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: EM64T and linux
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> On 28-Apr-06, at 13:35, Phillip Qin wrote:
>> It says "compilation time optimization uses a common base for  
>> AMD64/EM64T instead of legacy i386 cruft" but doesn't mention  
>> anything else about the EM64T. I am not familiar with the new 64- 
>> bit technology but I will give it a try.
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> In a hacking environment, cool. But for production, if you don't  
> _need_ 64 bit, why deal with the headaches?
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> If you do need 64 bit, don't buy a Xeon to run it on.
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> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of  
> Christopher Browne
> Sent: April 28, 2006 1:27 PM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: EM64T and linux
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> On 4/28/06, Phillip Qin <Phillip.Qin-szgMhqSEIEG+XT7JhA+gdA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > I know I shall post it to debian's user list. But does anyone  
> know whether
> > Debian 3.0 woody supports Intel EM64T architecture? I am trying  
> to order a
> > server. But Dell only ships Xeon with EM64T architecture.
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> Do you want to run it as a 32 bit system?  Or 64 bit?
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> If you run in 32 bit mode, then it shouldn't present any particularly
> special problems.
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> It may be more interesting in 64 bit mode, as Debian/AMD-64 has been
> released recently...
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> http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/
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