On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Shraddha Kamat <sh2008ka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I used x86 - bzImage to boot my machine and 'uname -a' shows this :- > > Linux phx4 3.7.1 #3 SMP Sun Dec 23 16:28:20 IST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > where I see x86_64 arch (and not x86_64) ??? > > What is the difference between arch/x86 and arch/x86_64 ? Very old days gone by , 32bit systems was known as 'i386' and 64bit system was called x86_64. ( If at all there were 64bit systems). Then we moved into and started calling x86 (32-bit system ) and x86_64 (64-bit system) Then kernel Dev's have got rid of this distension and name everything as x86. That is within, src/arch folder you will only find x86 folder. Thanks. > > > -- Shraddha > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
