On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Christopher Walters wrote: > for 64-bit systems, Debian and its child Ubuntu, have packages compiled to > use the "generic x86_64" option, so they can be used on an AMD64 and an > IA64 system. In addition, all kernel options are either directly in the > kernel, or modules that will eventually be required by some package.
ugh, sooo wrong. amd64/x86_64 is the same. Intels emt64 is the clone. IA64 (itanium) is a completly different beast. Itanium doesn't even run x86 software (well). They have nothing in common.
