Don Dixon wrote:
This link explains it from a 2.6 perspective, but in the FC1 updates directory, there exists an kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.athlon.rpm and a kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.i686.rpm. So which should be applied (keeping in mind what I mentioned earlier)?
Don Dixon fedora-list_me_no_like_spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I made a similar comment when FC2t1 was released and was told no new kernels woud be built for athalon.
The response was as has been said. The new kernel optimizes for athalon automatically.
However, as I understand it, that is the 2.6 kernel. AFAIK the 2.4 kernel still gets athalon builds.
Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
Don Dixon wrote:
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Not a problem. See http://people.redhat.com/%7Earjanv/2.6/readme.txt which includes this note:
"I no longer build athlon kernels because in theory the 2.6 kernel now has a
mechanism to automatically runtime patch in these optimisations during boot"
Chris
