Am i the only guy here who's running Fedora on pentium 3's? What about AMD folks? Or those who simply wants to use their old pentium 1's to run some sort of httpd, ftpd or simply a sshd for irissi etc? Yes, optimization is great, but don't leave people unable to use your distro. Hmm... Make separate i686 and i386 optimized ISO's? Kyrre søn, 26.09.2004 kl. 02.09 skrev Alan Cox: > On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 11:09:42PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > in theory we compile all of fedora core with -mtune=i686 (or > > -mtune=pentium4 nowadays). however that only actually happens if > > packages propagate the RPM_OPT_FLAGS into the CFLAGS properly; almost > > all but not quite not all packages actually do this. > > I noticed a curiosity playing with this that perhaps the gcc folks can > explain the right choice for - on Dothan -mtune=i686 is a lot faster than > tuning for pentium4. >
