RPM packages: Athlon vs i686 vs i386
Don Dixon
fedora-list at macrologic.com
Mon Mar 8 02:54:31 UTC 2004
Greetings,
I recently submitted what I thought was a bug to bubzilla concerning CPU
detection and FC1. The bugzilla number is 116941 if anyone is
interested in reading in detail. The basic problem is that I have an
Athlon XP 1600+ CPU, yet when I boot to the CLI, it says:
Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)
Kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl on an i686
This exact same hardware, until recently was running RH7.3 and it booted
to the CLI identifying itself as athlon. That was the reason I thought
it was a bug. On bugzilla, the report has been closed with:
"athlon is always a i686 for the kernel"
So, what I am now wondering about is updates. I need to know which
level of RPM packages to
load. For instance with kernels, would I choose
kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.athlon.rpm or
kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.i686.rpm? And with glibc, do I choose
glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i686.rpm
or glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i386.rpm.
Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Don
fedora-list_me_no_like_spam at macrologic.com
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