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SuSE Submits Enhancements for AMD Hammer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the getting-the-features-in dept.

ackthpt writes "SuSE has this press release as they are submitting enhancements to the Linux kernal particular to the AMD's x86-64 processor instruction set. Anticipated for 2.6 kernel, some enhancements may appear in 2.4, as development is only beginning on 2.5. AMD's take on the announcement as well.". nik notes that SuSE join NetBSD in having ports to Hammer. Usenix members can see the paper Wasabi's Frank van der Linden wrote about the porting effort.

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  1. already being done... by scorcherer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Take a look at GCC main page and you'll see a note on the x86-64 port contributed by SuSE.

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  2. Re:misleading headline by bears · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to one of the developers from SuSE who worked on this (and demoed SuSE running under one of the x86-64 simulators at a recent OxLUG talk ), SuSE and other porters did indeed make suggestions to AMD as to details of the architecture which were taken up by AMD.

  3. Interesting read by Matrim9 · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/020227/

    Interesting - they tested one of the Hammer CPUs on Suse, but they only ran XP in 32-bit... :o