Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Anthony Metcalf wrote:
>  
>> � � But what else? Will mtune=k6-2 make executables that will run on
>> an Athlon 64? Anyone tried this? Would I get to a point where I could
>> make -e world and have a nice working system?
>>  
>
> k6 is 32 bit right?
>
> There's no sane upgrade path to amd64, looks like you are in for a
> reinstall
>
>  
Yes, 32bit, and Athlon 64s ran x86 last I heard :)

The 64bit argument is one I will have to consider more deeply, but
certainly in the near term, I won't gain anything from it, as I don't do
*any* of the things the extended memory range is good for, and don't
need more than 4GB RAM.......

Later when I upgrade to a phenom, and stick 1GB RAM per core in there,
then yeah, I will probably recompile into 64bit, but that can be done in
a chroot, and migrated fairly easily I would expect, so long as the
system is running.