On Tuesday 21 January 2003 9:12 pm, Gert Caers wrote:
:> On January 21, 2003 02:36 am, Charles Philip Chan wrote: :> > If you didn't compile it yourself, then yes. SuSE doesn't provide AMD :> > optimized kernels. :> :> I typed too quickly here, by AMD I mean anything less than an Athelon :> such as K6, K6-II, K7, etc. : :i'd like to try it just fur the fun of it but can you point me to any :resources that tell me which options to enable and which not for a K7? :(i already had a look at LFS :http://www.nl.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/intro.shtml :for a general description and the kernel howto ) : :According to Anders Johansson i already have an optimized kernel: :#>rpm -q k_athlon :k_athlon-2.4.19-66 : :but if i understand this right this is optimized for modern Athlons.
When you do make menuconfig there is a specific option naming K7 for processor type (with linux 2.4.20) -- Richard Fletcher, Sheffield, UK.