athlon64 cool&quiet / powernow-k8
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Sat Apr 17 22:43:17 UTC 2004
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 12:14:08AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > FC2, its enabled in the 64bit build, but you're right, it is disabled
> > for the 32 bit kernels. I've not heard from anyone actually testing
> > it in this mode, so I've no idea how well it actually works, but
> > it should be 1:1 with running it in 64 bit mode.
> >
> > Arjan, any comments on enabling it ?
>
> well... why ? I mean, surely you'll run a 64 bit kernel on your fancy new 64
> bit cpu.
Same reason that we enable the AMD64 on-CPU gart in 32bit kernels..
I'm hard pressed to think of a valid reason for running the 32bit OS
over the 64bit one, but some folks may decide to for whatever reason,
and the impact for non-AMD64 users of the 32bit kernel is negligable.
Dave
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