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64 bit support

My brother in law just upgraded his Athlon 64 from 2800 to the 3400 and for my birthday, he gave me the 2800 chip. I love this guy. Just for curiosity sake... does ASL support 64-bit chips? I'd like to try it out if it does since I'll be building a machine for this CPU anyway.

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0 William Warren over 21 years ago

AFAIK the kernel for ASL is a 32 bit derivative.
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0 JimmyM over 21 years ago in reply to William Warren

Could the kernel be recompiled using the plus-pack to support 64 bit?
Hey, there's an idea for v6, an install option for a 64bit CPU.
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0 Manctastic over 21 years ago in reply to JimmyM

Doesnt the athlon run in 32 bit mode as well though?

So you could still use the CPU, just not in 64 bit mode...

Some of us are still on 500MHz celerons and so 64bit Astaro is way down the list of features [:)]
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0 Pyro411_01 over 21 years ago in reply to Manctastic

Yep the AMD64 runs 32/64bit at the same time. It'd be intresting to see if the install finishes on the v5 RC disks... I tried it on the Betas but found the install crashes just after the Hardware was detected.
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0 JimmyM over 21 years ago in reply to Manctastic

True, it does run in 32 bit mode, There are a ton of powerful 32bit chips out there but I was wondering about true 64bit operation.
I realize that most of use home users are using older machines (me included) but was just curious about actual 64 bit performance.
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0 Pyro411_01 over 21 years ago in reply to JimmyM

Don't worry to much. if there's enough urge for it there'll probably be a seperate distro, such as with the cobalt pcs in earlier releases. *shrugs* I'd be intrested in a AMD64 compliant release as well with or without multi CPU Support.
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0 Pyro411_01 over 21 years ago in reply to JimmyM

Don't worry to much. if there's enough urge for it there'll probably be a seperate distro, such as with the cobalt pcs in earlier releases. *shrugs* I'd be intrested in a AMD64 compliant release as well with or without multi CPU Support.
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