On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:23:12PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, James Wilkinson wrote: > > > Shardul Vyas wrote: > > > i read for kernel 2.2 specifications-- > > > > > > "AMD K6 is not supported" > > > > Erm -- what? Where? > > > > Mike Burger wrote: > > > Fedora Core doesn't make use of the 2.2 kernel...it uses 2.4 (FC1) or 2.6 > > > (FC2/3). > > > > > > I wouldn't go back to a 2.2 kernel, at this point. > > > > True. But even if there was a problem with 2.2 and the K6 at one point > > (and I never heard of it), it didn't last long. The K6 came out in 1997, > > the K6-2 in 1998, and 2.4 came out right at the end of 2000, if I recall > > correctly. > > As I recall, though, the initial message mentioned Fedora...ah, here it > is: > > "i already have fedora core installed on my AMD K6(3D now)machine." > > Although, looking at it, now, I note the 3DNow notation, and I don't > recall that being available on the K6 line...he may well have a K7 > (Athlon/Duron) and just misnomered. > This probably refers to the K6-III (also called K6-3 or K6-3DNow!). It was a short lived processor. I think it came out in a 400 Mhz and 450 Mhz version. I'm running a 400 here in my little mail server box (it just serves mail to me, mostly). It had a weird tri-level cache structure, and the 400 Mhz version was just a tad slower than a P3-450. AMD dropped marketing for it as the K6-2 went to 450 and 500 Mhz speeds, then the Athlon came out, and it didn't matter any more. Here's a link to AMD's page on the chip. <http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_1260_1288,00.html>
