On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 16:23 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: > On 26/09/13 15:53, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 09/25/2013 06:13 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: > > > My concern is wether this procedure results in a kernel that is > > > less optimized for the CPU it is running on than if Fedora had > > > been installed directly on that machine. > > > > > > I don't know enough about Fedora installation to know what, > > > if any, processor related optimizations are made in the install > > > instead of boot time. > > > > > I don't think it makes any difference now. Years ago (not sure how > > many), there was both the 386 and 686 kernels and that was decided > > by the installer. Now, the only possible difference if you aren't > > installing 64-bit is whether you get the PAE kernel or not. And I > > don't know how that's decided or even if there is a choice. > There also used to be a distinction between kernels compiled for a > single core processor and ones for a machine with multiple cores - > though at that time (AFAIR) CPU chips normally had only one core, so > we are talking about motherboards with slots for 2 or more CPU chips. > Also, I think they were all 32 bit, at least the ones I might be able > to afford.... That hasn't been the case for rather a long time. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
