586 vs 686

[Mike Chambers]

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 10:31 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> 'grep pae /proc/cpuinfo' to know if your cpu supports pae.
> 
> Regardless, the new rules apply primarily to *new* installs, not 
> upgrades. If you had the old kernel.i686, the only sane upgrade path is 
> to kernel.i586, unless yum grew the smarts to know that you have PAE 
> support and/or a 64-bit capable cpu. Even then, people might have reason 
> to stick with kernel.i586 (their crappy out-of-tree driver doesn't work 
> w/either PAE or 64-bit), so we shouldn't be changing arches or packages 
> on them. So for upgrades, you'll have to move to kernel-PAE.i686 or 
> kernel.x86_64 manually at first, if you can/want to make that change.

Mine is a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+, and pae is
listed in the flags. Although I guess I would/should be using 64bit
kernel once it's in the 32 bit os path?

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Mike Chambers
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