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[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Samstag, den 05.02.2005, 15:14 +0100 schrieb Arjan van de Ven:
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 02:55:18PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 05.02.2005, 14:22 +0100 schrieb Arjan van de Ven:
> > > > - Special case for ia32e in uname (bug #145266).
> > > 
> > > this is wrong. Very wrong. 
> > 
> > While at it and just out of curiosity -- why to we have both ia32e and
> > x86_64 as possible archs in bugzilla.redhat.com? 
> 
> because for RHEL3 we had to do a second kernel rpm because we couldn't
> retrofit em64t support into the kernel within the compability and stability
> contraints rhel3 updates have.
> 
> > I'm just wondering if that is (still?) needed... And yes, I know there
> 
> not for anything not RHEL3.

I don't know bugzilla internals that much -- should it be possible to
limit that arch to the RHEL component? If someones says "yes" I'm going
to to open a bugzilla report against bugzilla ;-) 

> Note that ia32e is doubly wrong; Intel calls their cpu technology EM64T not
> ia32e.

Before my first post I rechecked it: Google finds 27 hits on intel.com
for "ia32"e ;-) But of course EM64T is correct.

-- 
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>