[gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

[gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

[qfpvajdy]

Hello,



I'm a little confused.

I just bought a Intel Xeon 64 Bits processors and now I'm confused what to install? Should I install the Gentoo IA64 or AMD64 version?

I know that Intel Xeon processors have EM64T support, which means normally full compatibility to AMD64?



Does somebody knows what would be better?



Best regards,

saf


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RE: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

[Nelson, David J]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: qfpvajdy [mailto:qfpvajdy@trashmail.net]
> Sent: 24 April 2007 10:42
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or
> AMD64) ?
>
> I'm a little confused.
> I just bought a Intel Xeon 64 Bits processors and now I'm 
> confused what to install? Should I install the Gentoo IA64 or 
> AMD64 version?
> I know that Intel Xeon processors have EM64T support, which 
> means normally full compatibility to AMD64?
> 
> Does somebody knows what would be better?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64

IA64 is Itanium CPUs I think - you should go with amd64.

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Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

[Davi]

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Em Terça 24 Abril 2007 06:49, Nelson, David J escreveu:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: qfpvajdy [mailto:qfpvajdy@trashmail.net]
> > Sent: 24 April 2007 10:42
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Subject: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or
> > AMD64) ?
> >
> > I'm a little confused.
> > I just bought a Intel Xeon 64 Bits processors and now I'm
> > confused what to install? Should I install the Gentoo IA64 or
> > AMD64 version?
> > I know that Intel Xeon processors have EM64T support, which
> > means normally full compatibility to AMD64?
> >
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64
>
> IA64 is Itanium CPUs I think - you should go with amd64.
>

But Xeon is Itanium's substitute... isn't?

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Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Tuesday 24 April 2007 13:02:57 Davi wrote:
> > > I know that Intel Xeon processors have EM64T support, which
> > > means normally full compatibility to AMD64?
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64
> >
> > IA64 is Itanium CPUs I think - you should go with amd64.
>
> But Xeon is Itanium's substitute... isn't?

Not really. em64t is almost identical to amd64 and very different from ia64.

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Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

[Davi]

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Em Terça 24 Abril 2007 08:07, Bo Ørsted Andresen escreveu:
> On Tuesday 24 April 2007 13:02:57 Davi wrote:
> > > > I know that Intel Xeon processors have EM64T support, which
> > > > means normally full compatibility to AMD64?
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64
> > >
> > > IA64 is Itanium CPUs I think - you should go with amd64.
> >
> > But Xeon is Itanium's substitute... isn't?
>
> Not really. em64t is almost identical to amd64 and very different from
> ia64.

Sorry... =]

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RE: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

[Nelson, David J]

> 
> But Xeon is Itanium's substitute... isn't?
> 

Nope. Itanium and Xeon are developed in parallel. Where Xeon is based off of desktop CPU architecture (x86, AMD64, et al) the Itanium (aka Itanic due to slow uptake) is a 64bit CPU completely from scratch.


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