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A Gentoo x32 release candidate

A Gentoo x32 release candidate

Posted Jun 11, 2012 14:42 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: A Gentoo x32 release candidate by nix
Parent article: A Gentoo x32 release candidate

New Atoms support x86_64.


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A Gentoo x32 release candidate

Posted Jun 11, 2012 22:01 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Excellent! Maybe we *can* get rid of x86 then. I was resigned to its being immortal...

A Gentoo x32 release candidate

Posted Jun 11, 2012 22:05 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Well, there's NaCl remaining which uses x86 code.

Besides, amd64 is not much better than x86.

A Gentoo x32 release candidate

Posted Jun 12, 2012 22:45 UTC (Tue) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]

The desktop Atom models are all 64-bit capable now, but there are still mobile and embedded models available that use older 32-bit cores.

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