I think it's just an i386 kernel, since they do offer an x86_64 (which they call amd64) version that has all 64-bit. "generic" just refers to being the baseline kernel for the distribution. Both amd64 and i386 have generic kernels and packages that add onto it in Ubuntu.

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
On a not entirely unrelated topic, I noticed the other day that Ubuntu
ships "generic" kernels which work on i386 and x86-64 (or that's what
it appeared to do for me).  Anyone know how that works?

Rich.

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