[Gllug] AMD64

[Doug Winter]

George Wright wrote:
> Do you have sound working at all using OSS or something similar? What about 
> onboard ethernet? The sound isn't too much of an issue as I have a PCI 
> SoundBlaster Live which I use instead of onboard but I sometimes use the 
> onboard as the line input on my SB is very quiet...

To simplify a bit, the kernel is the same kernel as for 32-bit, except 
compiled in 64-bit, so it all just works basically.  Problems arise 
where code isn't "64-bit clean" - i.e. it is assumed that words are 
32-bits wide and that kind of thing.  The kernel has been 64-bit clean 
for ages, since it runs on other 64-bit architectures, like sparc64, and 
has done for some time.

doug.

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