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Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64
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On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 06:31, Diego Calleja García wrote:

> Does that mean that the opteron-based distros will be able to run 
> their x86-64 kernelspace/userspace in intel micros without modifications,
> or only the userspace?

Presumably there will be some minor kernel modifications needed, but
Intel's public position is that going forward, there's only one 64-bit
kernel and userspace needed for both platforms.

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