Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Bastian Timmermann <bastian.timmermann@×××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which architecture ???
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:01:43
Message-Id: 4CFF813F.90204@innogames.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Which architecture ??? by dhk
1 Best is, if you take 64bit :-)
2
3 Greets
4
5 Bastian
6
7 On 08.12.2010 13:39, dhk wrote:
8 > On 12/08/2010 07:21 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
9 >> On 12/08/10 12:25:23, dhk wrote:
10 >>> I have a laptop which has an AMD Athlon Neo X2 L335 2.2GHz Dual Core
11 >>> processor on it and I'd like to know which architecture (handbook and
12 >>> livecd) to use.
13 >>>
14 >>> The handbook choices are: x86, sparc, amd64, ppc, ppc64, alpha,
15 >>> hppa,
16 >>> mips, ia64, arm. I'm guessing the x86, but I's like to be sure.
17 >>>
18 >>
19 >> x86 will do for sure.
20 >> But you can check
21 >>
22 >> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "address sizes"
23 >>
24 >> If it shows more than 32 bits (e.g. 48 bits)
25 >> then you could use amd64, as well.
26 >> AFAIK, 64 is mean stream today.
27 >> How much memory do you have installed?
28 >> If more than 4G you have to use adm64 to fully use it.
29 >> I'd prefer amd64 if possible,
30 >>
31 >> Helmut.
32 >>
33 >>
34 >>
35 >
36 > I don't see any address size but when I cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep size I
37 > get casche size 256 KB and clflush size 64. The laptop has 4G of memory.