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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Anthony Metcalf wrote:
> =20
>> =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD But what else? Will mtune=3Dk6-2 make executables =
that will run on
>> an Athlon 64? Anyone tried this? Would I get to a point where I could
>> make -e world and have a nice working system?
>> =20
>
> k6 is 32 bit right?
>
> There's no sane upgrade path to amd64, looks like you are in for a=20
> reinstall
>
> =20
Yes, 32bit, and Athlon 64s ran x86 last I heard :)

The 64bit argument is one I will have to consider more deeply, but=20
certainly in the near term, I won't gain anything from it, as I don't do =

*any* of the things the extended memory range is good for, and don't=20
need more than 4GB RAM.......

Later when I upgrade to a phenom, and stick 1GB RAM per core in there,=20
then yeah, I will probably recompile into 64bit, but that can be done in =

a chroot, and migrated fairly easily I would expect, so long as the=20
system is running.


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