Why there is no athlon specific kernel in Fedora core 1/2 ?

Paul paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk
Tue Jul 27 13:25:47 UTC 2004


Hi,

> Why is the athlon optimised compiled kernel available in Fedora? Also if I
> try to rebuild from SRPM, it tells me that athlon architecture is not
> included.

Certainly from the 2.6 kernel there wasn't an Athlon option - mainly as
the kernel now self detects the processor and applies the optimisations
itself. You just have to use the i686 version to access this.

TTFN

Paul
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