Kernel version for AMD Sempron

[James Gray]

On Monday 06 February 2006 03:51, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 11:40 -0500, David M. Carney wrote:
> > Basically, what Alexander said is correct about it's ok to use that
> > kernel version. However, he is quite mistaken to think the Semperon
> > CPU
> > is any kind of Intel 80386 chip. It is an AMD cpu and is not made by
> > Intel at all.
>
> I believe he was referring to the instruction set, not the vendor.  All
> AMD chips implement the Intel i386 instruction set.

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/Actually/ there is no such thing as the "i386" instruction set :P  The 
instruction set is "IA32" and has been the basis of all 32bit Intel CPU's 
since the 80386, right up to the current generation of P4's and Xeon's.

Another instruction set is the "IA64" which has only been implemented on the 
Intel Itanium CPU (which was originally the DEC Alpha CPU...then bought by 
Compaq/HP, then sold to Intel).
</PEDANT>

Any resident kernel hackers are welcome to throw egg on my face if I've missed 
anything here.

Cheers,

James
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