Am Mo, den 08.03.2004 schrieb Don Dixon um 03:54:
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"
That's absolutely right. See the output of "uname -a".
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.
For the kernel choose .nptl.athlon.rpm update packages. For glibc and
openssl choose i686 RPMs.
If you use yum or up2date to keep your system up to date there is no
need to care for that. The update process will choose the right
packages.
Thanks. This information was most useful.