On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Christopher Walters wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > 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. > > I am well aware that AMD64 and IA64 are different, use different > instruction sets, and different kernel configurations (AMD and Intel > diverged many years ago). Perhaps I mistyped, or perhaps you misunderstood > me, but my main points remain the same. It is not cool to pick one part of > a person's message and criticize it, while ignoring the remainder of said > message. Especially when said message is supporting your points. > > Regards, > Chris
because the message was wrong. You can't compile for 'generic x86_64' and have the software run on itanium.
