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Red Hat Reveals Support For AMD's Hammer

Posted by Hemos on from the support-the-new dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Red Hat had been rumored to be working on support AMD's Hammer architecture, and now they have made it official. Now if I can get a hold of one of these my little site will finally be able to handle a good slashdotting with 16GB of DDR333! 'Red Hat will provide native 64-bit support for processors based on AMD's x86-64 technology, while providing support for existing 32-bit Linux-based applications.'" Combine this with Linus' feelings and Hammer is looking better and better.

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  1. Linus's hammer support?! by NicolaiBSD · · Score: 5, Informative

    Doh! Linus doesn't have warm fuzzy feelings towards the Hammer, or rather he's never expressed them. The poster is referring to a post on LKML on paging issues with Itanium.
    Linus didn't endorse one platform or the other, he only explained that if Hammer was to become dominant instead of Itanium, it would save the kernel developers problems solving the Itanium paging problems.

    1. Re:Linus's hammer support?! by cperciva · · Score: 5, Informative

      Linus didn't endorse one platform or the other, he only explained that if Hammer was to become dominant instead of Itanium, it would save the kernel developers problems solving the Itanium paging problems.

      I think you mean linux's paging problems. Specifically, the fact that gcc being broken means that linux uses 32 bits for fields which should be 64 bits.

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  2. SuSE's work on supporting the Hammer by Roger+Whittaker · · Score: 5, Informative

    Press releases detailing SuSE's work on Linux for the Hammer can be found here (20th March 2002), here (28th February 2002) and here (31st January 2001).

    Roger Whittaker (SuSE Linux Ltd)