detecting i386 or x86_64 in kickstart

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Feb 19 13:14:37 UTC 2007


On Sunday 18 February 2007 22:24, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
> I know that much... my question was specifically about x86_64 and i686
> (since I was under the impression that i686 also means a 64-bit
> processor).
>
> I imagine i686 covers a much wider range of CPUs, not all of which are
> 64-bit?

i686 does not mean 64-bit.  i686 is still 32bit.  It's just a newer family of 
32bit processors. (newer than i586/i486/i386)

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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