Mac OS X v10.6: Starting up with the 32-bit or 64-bit kernel

 
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Mac OS X v10.6: Starting up with the 32-bit or 64-bit kernel

Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard includes a 64-bit kernel. On hardware that supports the 64-bit kernel, you can choose whether to start up (boot) your Mac using the new 64-bit kernel or the earlier 32-bit kernel.

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radeon(7d)							      Devices								radeon(7d)

NAME
radeon - DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure)-compliant kernel driver providing 3-dimensional graphic hardware acceleration support. DESCRIPTION
The radeon driver is a DRI-compliant kernel driver that provides graphics hardware acceleration support. DRI is a framework for coordinat- ing OS kernel, 3D graphics hardware, X window system and OpenGL applications. The radeon driver currently supports certain low-end ATI radeon graphics cards, including Radeon X700. FILES
/kernel/drv/radeon 32-bit ELF kernel module (x86). /kernel/drv/amd64/radeon 64-bit ELF kernel module (x86). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWdrmr | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Architecture |x86 | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Committed | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) /usr/openwin/share/man/man1/Xserver.1 /usr/X11/share/man/man1/Xorg.1 /usr/openwin/share/man/man1/Xsun.1 /usr/openwin/share/man/man5/X11.5 SunOS 5.11 1 Apr 2008 radeon(7d)