Multi-arch kernel install directories.

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Tue Jan 13 19:41:16 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 22:11 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Steven Pritchard writes:
> > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:38:11PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >> Right now, the only way I can think of doing this is to install an earlier
> >> vintage athlon kernel RPM, which is not going to conflict with the 2140
> >> kernel, reboot, then upgrade to the 2140 athlon kernel RPM after getting rid
> >> of the i686 kernel.  Sounds messy.
> > 
> > Why bother?  The i686 kernel will run fine on the Athlon.
> 
> Are you sure, including SMP?  I have no idea -- just asking.

Yep, the athlon kernel just adds athlon optimized memcpy() routines,
IIRC.  And with 2.6, this gets done at runtime instead of requiring
another binary kernel package (hooray! :)

Cheers,

Jeremy





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