[ATrpms-users] Re: AMD64 & ATRPMS

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 09:32:59AM -0700, Daniel Morrigan wrote:
> Hello all,
> I recently put together a MythTV box following Jarod's excellent How-To and 
> realized that I am not using any 64bit software. I have an AMD64 system and 
> was wondering if there is a way to do a mass upgrade of the FC3 system from 
> the ATRPMS repository.

You mean you installed FC3/i386? In that case I would go for a
reinstall.

> I guess the second question is does MythTV take advantage of any of
> the AMD64's features?

Yes and no, any software built on AMD64 with the proper compiler will
take advantage, but there are some parts of myth that contain optimzed assember
code that needs to be written for x86_64.

-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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