From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAtie-0007vx-5j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:23:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81IKGHW006533; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:20:16 GMT Received: from smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j81IIYVL018886 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:18:34 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j81ILdqU018029 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:21:39 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:20:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <43173CC8.4090606@gentoo.org> References: <20050901171028.GW18440@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> <200509011923.58239@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <43173CC8.4090606@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-PvPGmqK0TiHToBFFFl19" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:20:52 -0400 Message-Id: <1125598852.19807.49.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 X-Archives-Salt: 6d663e3b-9f9e-42f0-8473-27e4590ad009 X-Archives-Hash: f288d78c84f1fc57c53f8a06538bac6e --=-PvPGmqK0TiHToBFFFl19 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 13:39 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > I hope this not. As (iirc) I already said, it's impossible to combine x= 86 with=20 > > anything else that's not 100% source and binary compatible with itself.= .. > > The reason is actually simple: x86 is, or at least was, the reference=20 > > architecture for almost all programmers. >=20 > Witih amd64 becoming so widespread, this will change. >=20 > > There are too many packages that works *just* on x86, both at source an= d=20 > > binary level. >=20 > Doesn't the amd64 team have a set of 32-bit compat libs just to run=20 > binary packages? When running 32-bit code, isn't amd64 basically just a=20 > glorified athlon-xp? No. It just has the same *instruction* set as an Athlon XP, plus SSE2 and even SSE3 in newer models. There's also the Intel EM64T stuff which is more like a P4 than an Athlon XP, since it has no 3Dnow! support. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-PvPGmqK0TiHToBFFFl19 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDF0aEkT4lNIS36YERAjJQAKCSLoKEWUhstiCHojZR2z3i0aOjPgCfWAqb xEYQfVQsWc6aznz33MZ8P2I= =f6oq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-PvPGmqK0TiHToBFFFl19-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list