Re: aix 32 or 64 bit kernel.

From: Saxon, Lamar (Lamar.Saxon@AMERICREDIT.COM)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 10:50:52 EDT


The width of the kernel itself... 32 or 64 bit. But, remember this will
always return 32 on an AIX 4.3.3 kernel since it is a 32 bit kernel.
bootinfo -K does not tell you kernel width ( 64 bit environment is enabled
or not ). I use a program that I compiled from here or the comp.unix.aix
archives that will tell you hardware/kernel/kernel width.

Do a search for 64 bit in the archives. I will see if I can find it.

bootinfo -k will be a good command for AIX 5 which has both 32 bit and 64
bit kernels.

Thanks and hope this is as clear as mud...

Lamar

-----Original Message-----
From: justin.bleistein@SUNGARD.COM [mailto:justin.bleistein@SUNGARD.COM]
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 9:33 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: aix 32 or 64 bit kernel.

What do you mean by bitness?

                      Rick Kissel
                      <RKissel@RATIONAL To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
                      .COM> cc:
                      Sent by: IBM AIX Subject: Re: aix 32 or 64
bit kernel.
                      Discussion List
                      <aix-l@Princeton.
                      EDU>

                      07/18/2002 10:11
                      AM
                      Please respond to
                      IBM AIX
                      Discussion List

Saxon, Lamar writes:
> Just a note...
>
> bootinfo -y will tell you if the hardware is 64 bit not the kernel width.

You can use the undocumented "-K" flag to find out the "bit-ness" of the
kernel:

  bootinfo -K

 -- Rick



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Wed Apr 09 2008 - 22:16:04 EDT