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SubjectRe: Re: Athlon 64 X2 cpuinfo oddities
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490601100129h2ce343f5kc9bc22885f01831a@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> Yeah, but since my distro of choice is 32bit only and I don't much
> feel like porting it myself or using an unofficial port (slamd64) I'm
> sticking with a 32bit userspace. And as long as userspace is pure
> 32bit there doesn't seem to be much point in building a 64bit kernel.

Of course there's a point -- you can test both x86-64 and i386 kernels.
Sometimes one has a bug the other doesn't, as you just found.

FWIW, 32-bit userspace works almost perfectly for me on 64-bit kernel
(everything but iptables and old pcmcia-cs package.)

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