suitable kernel for amd64

Felipe Alfaro Solana felipe.alfaro at gmail.com
Wed Aug 30 16:27:37 UTC 2006


> Currently, I am running kernel-image-2.6.15.25-386 on my laptop with with AMD
> Turion64 X2 processor. This kernel is per default shipped with
> Ubuntu6.06 to make it work on any x386 processor. It, naturally, does
> not support dual processors.

If you want support for two processors do:

sudo apt-get install linux-686-smp (this kernel does support SMP)

If you want full 64-bit support, download the Ubuntu Linux
distribution for AMD64 processors. This distribution comes with a
64-bit kernel for your machine.


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