On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:22 -0500, Steve wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > >I have the problem that I almost never throw anything away that can > >still be useful. In itself, not bad. Combined with the "World We Live > >In" (TM), a "Less Than Optimal Behavior" (SM). > > > >I need some of the features in CentOSPlus kernels for my 586 (K6-III). > > > > > > > I believe that the 686 kernel is compiled with the 586 or 486 > instruction set but optimized for i686. (There is almost no benefit > from using the few new i686 instructions, though a few people still moan > about it.) A 586 kernel I believe would use the 586 instruction set and > be optimized for an Intel Pentium 1. I'm not sure how much the K6-III > would benefit from the Intel optimizations. The K6-III was a superior > chip. (I really liked my 450, and you gotta love the 3 levels of cache.) > > If I were you, I'd just use yum the prebuilt one. Umm... I was led to believe that I might need a 586-specific one by the fact that the base system must provide one for installs to succeed, IIRC and RH made a point of saying they no longer support 586. Is that just install-time incompatibility and RH problem resolution support? If the kernel in Plus is suffixed with -686, what's that mean to me? Thanks for taking the time, regardless. > > -Steve > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill
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