Hi,

FYI: I saw SuSE 9.1 professional 64bit running well on a 3.4 GHz Dual Xeon
system with Lindenhurst chipset last week.

There's also a specific kernel build for EM64T among Red Hat's latest
enterprise kernel errata (looks like it's UP only though).

Cheers,
        Stephan

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Michael David Joy wrote:

> John,
>
> The x86_64 built Scientific Linux kernel should at least be binary
> compatible with the Xeon-64 processor. However, the chipset support for
> this processor is most likely not supported. It may be a version or two
> of the redhat enterprise kernel before Redhat and or Intel gets around
> to incorporating the needed changes for PCI Express, and the like that
> the new chipsets supporting this processor use.
>
> If you look in the redhat source build spec's you will notice that they
> have the option turned on to support this processor. I did not however
> notice any additional code for the new chipsets last time I looked at
> the build specs a month ago.
>
> So yes and no, the processor may be supported but I think you may have
> to wait awhile before you get a linux distro that runs on it because of
> the chipset support.
>
> You could always try bleeding edge Fedora Core 3 test 1 though. It's
> possible that these changes have already started to make their way into
> the 2.6.7 kernel.
>
> I hope this helps,
> Michael Joy
> HEP - University of Mississippi
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> On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 11:10, Connie Sieh wrote:
> > John,
> >
> > Do you mean EM64T support?
> >
> > -connie sieh
> > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, John Rowe wrote:
> >
> > > Does anybody know which distribution I need for this? Is the xeon-64
> > > athlon-64 compatible or should I use the i386 distro?
> > >
> > > Interesting times..
> > >
> > > John
> > >
>

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