Re: i386 kernel not included?

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Markku Kolkka wrote:
> Viestissä Maanantai 21. Lokakuuta 2002 15:09, Neal D. Becker kirjoitti:
> 
>>Note that selecting an athlon kernel does NOT enable the athlon
>>optimzations!
> 
> 
> Right, the kernel gets compiled with -mcpu=i686. The only effect of choosing 
> Athlon configuration seems to be to the memory clear/copy routines in 
> arch/i386/lib/mmx.c

Which has a large impact :)

I thionk the earlu -mcpu=k7 produced some bad code in the kerenl,
which is why it wasn't used. What's the minimum compiler now,
egcs? Does it have a -mcpu=k7 switch? Does it do anything?

	-Thomas



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