On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 09:25 -0800, John Reiser wrote: > On 01/24/2011 07:43 AM, drago01 wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Sergio Belkin <sebelk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've read on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:RPMMacros#Build_flags_macros_and_variables > >> that mtune=atom. Just because I'm curious, why? :) > > > > Why not? > > > > It is the only 32bit only CPU still being sold, > > There are plenty of machines with 32-bit only CPUs (such as early Celeron, > Pentium socket 478, even some Core Duos [Apple Mini]) which run Fedora very well. > Many are less than 5 years old. In the US, that means the depreciation rules > of tax law strongly encourage their continued use. IIRC, when we stopped supporting i586, someone kindly ran some tests of the various -mtune options, and atom optimization turned out to work best for almost all the processors tested - it's not _just_ good for Atoms. I could probably drag that post out of the archives if I weren't a lazy good-for-nothing, but I am, so, what you get is my probably-faulty memory. =) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
