On Thu, May 15, 2008, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008, Jeremy Lewi wrote:
>
> > I'm installing openpkg for the first time. I followed the instructions
> > on http://www.openpkg.org/documentation/tutorial/. After running the script
> > to produce the binary shell package, the files produced had a suffix
> > "amd64-rhel14-openpkg." My architecture however is x86_64 as I have an
> > Xeon processor. Does this indicate a problem and is there a way to
> > correctly specify the target?
>
> No, the architecture is correct: AMD64 is the marketing/technology name
> of the original vendor of the x86 64-bit technology while x86_64 is the
> identifier the Linux kernel uses for this platform. They are the same!
> It is just a little bit obscure and partly historical that even Intel
> Xeon's are today labeled with AMD64. OTOH it is not such incorrect as
> one thinks on the first spot as the 64-bit extension "EMT64" the Xeons
> use is AFAIK a licensed technology originally coming from AMD's AMD64
> platform. But you have no problem, the architecture is just fine.
>
> For some more background: it is important for GNU shtool (the tool doing
> the detection) to _NOT_ distinguish between ix86+EMT64 and AMD64 because
> they two are really mostly identical -- both for the OS and even more
> for OpenPKG. If GNU shtool would label one "amd64" and the other e.g.
> "ix64" (or whatever) all packages would have to recognize both, although
> technically there would be no single reason. So, I do not plan to change
> GNU shtool here...
>
> Currently, you can't specify the target manually as until now nobody
> ever wanted to do this (as the determined platform is usually correct).
> The branding in case of the "x86 / 64-bit" platform is just a little
> historical accident ;-)
s/EMT64/EM64T/, of course. Sorry for the confusion...
Ralf S. Engelschall
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