RE: bigmem questions---I OOPSED! K6<->Pentium/TSC not PPro

From: nathan.zook@amd.com
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 16:11:33 EST


SORRY. K6 was designed to be compatible with the Pentium-MMX (which is why
it used to be the same line as TSC).

Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Arcangeli [mailto:andrea@suse.de]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 3:05 PM
> To: Zook, Nathan
> Cc: mchapman@cupertino.synopsys.com; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: RE: bigmem questions
>
>
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 nathan.zook@amd.com wrote:
>
> >BTW, is the bigmem option incompatible with the nopentium
> command line
> >option? [..]
>
> No.
>
> >don't know the K6 specs, but it was designed with PPro
> compatibility in
> >mind.
>
> So it should work just fine with the 64giga support too.
>
> BTW, a:
>
> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep pae
>
> is also an easy way to check out if the 64giga capable kernel
> will run or
> not.
>
> Andrea
>

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