On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 07:54:13PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: > > > . . . or maybe it is a 64 bit CPU that is not x86_64/amd64 compatible. > > Do IA-64 (Itanium), IBM POWER, and SPARC 64 bit processors use the same > > Long Mode functionality? > > > > No, it is a function of it's ancestry, real mode, protected mode(16 & 32), > and long mode. Completely 64 bit native architectures like IA-64 have no > need for such tricks,
That's what I thought -- I just wanted to be sure before committing myself to a statement to that effect, since CPU arhictectures are not my specialty by any stretch of the imagination. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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