From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267057AbUBSJPW (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 04:15:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267077AbUBSJPW (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 04:15:22 -0500 Received: from elin.scali.no ([62.70.89.10]:57319 "EHLO elin.scali.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267057AbUBSJPQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 04:15:16 -0500 Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 From: Terje Eggestad To: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Scali AS Message-Id: <1077182108.3492.58.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:15:09 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To whom ever making a list The sysenter/syscall thing continues. On ia32e sysenter/sysleave is legal in 64 bit, but since ia32e also implement syscall in 64bit (only, not in legacy, nor compatability) this shouldn't have any practical implications. TJ On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 02:44, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, > now that Intel has finally come clean about their x86-64 implementation > (see > > http://www.intel.com/technology/64bitextensions/index.htm?iid=techtrends+spotlight_64bit > > for full details), can somebody write up a list of differences? I know > there are people who have had access to the Intel docs for a while now, > and obviously Intel is too frigging proud to list the differences > explicitly. > > >From what I can tell from a quick look, it looks like it is basically just > the 3DNow vs SSE3 thing, but I assume there are other details too. Can > people who have been involved with this make a quick list for the rest of > us who only got to see the final details today? > > (And I assume there's somebody with a few patches pending..) > > Thanks, > Linus > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Terje Eggestad Senior Software Engineer dir. +47 22 62 89 61 mob. +47 975 31 57 fax. +47 22 62 89 51 terje.eggestad@scali.com Scali - www.scali.com High Performance Clustering