Athlon Incompatible Packages

[Tom Diehl]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 01:03 -0500, Tom Diehl wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> >
> > For the 3rd time IT IS NOT WORTH THE EFFORT. The packages that can see
> > significant performance gains by compiling for Athlon are already available.
> > The rest are compiled with i686 optimizations and that is good enough.
> > 
> > Look at the kernel packages for instance. You have an Athlon kernel available.
> > 
> Ehm, not anymore; 2.6 kernels are available in i386 and i686 variants
> only. IIRC some runtime CPU detection is being done, similar to what
> MPlayer does.

Ok, I stand corrected, but if the detection is being done at runtime then this
is still accomplishing the same thing much more efficiently. I do not think
anyone can complain if they have one less kernel to compile. :-)

Tom