Re: Why does Red Hat and Fedora software not distinguish between AMD and Intel kernels?

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On 02/07/2014 10:19 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> Haven't looked in some time, but last I knew, they don't ship both an amd
> and an intel kernel. They ship an "i386" kernel, which works for all x86
> cpus, amd and intel alike, and they ship an "amd64" kernel, which works
> for all x86_64 cpus, amd and intel alike. This is the exact same thing as
> us shipping i386 and x86_64 packages, just slightly different naming (AMD
> originated the platform, Debian named their 64-bit packages accordingly).
> 

I'm wondering if that's the confusion here.  They use the old naming convention
(which admittedly is still in use in some parts of a certain company that
supports Fedora[1]) of "amd64" to describe their 64-bit kernel ...

P.

[1] I've tried getting us to move to "x86" and "x86 32 bit".  I've _tried_. /me
weeps.
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