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Scott Robert Ladd wrote: > Timothy Miller wrote: > >> In other words, Intel's implementation deviates from the architecture >> as defined by AMD. So it's not 100% compatible. I just want this >> point to be clear. > > > There may exist non-instruction-set differences between the chips as > well. Opteron systems (which have per-CPU memory control) operate as > NUMA machines; will the same be true for any of Intel's ia32e chips? > Any difference which is transparent to software is irrelevant. Hardware differences which can be dealt with and hidden by the kernel are things Linux can just deal with. The only thing that really matters here is user space. People don't seem to have problems compiling kernels for specific processors, and the kernel can be designed to also do run-time detection for the generic case (i.e. boot CD's, etc.). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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