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Alin Nastac wrote: |
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> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't amd64 and ia64 architectures |
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> nearly the same? Beside 3dnow/sse instruction sets of course. |
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> If so, shouldn't we have the same kewords ("amd64 ia64", "~amd64 ~ia64" |
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> or none) on every package that don't use 3dnow/sse instructions? |
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no, they are totally different arches. ia64 is for itanium, which was |
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intel's horrid first attempt at a 64-bit successor to x86. amd64 is, in |
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most places, refered to x86_64, and refers to processors with the amd64 |
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or emt64 chipsets. |
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they are totally different. jfgi next time ;-) |
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-smithj |
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