Re: [gentoo-user] How do I determine the processor type?

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 09:42:42PM -0500, Dale wrote:

> From my understanding, someone correct me if I am off here, AMD sort of
> beat Intel to the 64 bit thing.  So, it sort of got named amd64 even tho
> Intel came along later on and the name just stuck.  That's a very short
> version of the story and I think that is how it went but someone may
> come along and correct something.

I sort of knew that, but I haven't kept up with all the processor
names, and linux the kernel merged x86 and amd64 in some fashion, or
was it x86 and x86_64?  /usr/src/linux/arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is a
symlink to the x86.  It's all very confusing, and one of the gentoo
docs says iCore2 is Xeon, so what do I know about iCore7?

Kernel compile finished, 16 minutes (SSD sure speeds it up).  I'll
finish the setup tomorrow.  At some point I have to figure out where
Ubuntu hides the boot config so I can add an entry for the gentoo install.

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