Re: i386 kernel not included?

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On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 16:40, Petr Soucek wrote:
> On 20 Oct 2002, at 15:56, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > i586 rpms make all machines except the original Pentium I and Pentium
> > MMX slower. The first step that improves performance is i686 but that
> > would rule out K6 and Via C3 cpu's....
> 
> I'm not sure now - for K6-2 is better i586 or i386 rpm?

K6-2's run better with i386 compiler options. That's why we'll probably
switch to that for the i586 kernel.
(Note: i586 kernel not just means compiler flags, it also uses the fact
that certain 80386 cpu bugs aren't present and can use some 80486+
instructions)


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