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
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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
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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
