Re: [gentoo-user] march athlon-xp to athlon64

2006-05-31 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:51, Ralph Slooten wrote: Hiya list, I bought myself a new AMD Athlon64 in December, and initially installed it as a 64-bit Gentoo. In January this year I decided to reinstall it as a 32-bit OS due to constant issues with flash plugins, win32 codecs etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] march athlon-xp to athlon64

2006-05-31 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: netscape-flash works with mozilla-firefox-bin and any other 32-bit browser, it's also possible to make it work with 64-bit konqueror. You might also be interested in looking at net-www/gnash, still alpha quality but

Re: [gentoo-user] march athlon-xp to athlon64

2006-05-31 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
Yes they are for different architectures, the main architectural difference being the addition of sse2 in athlon64 cpus. There may possibly be other differences in how gcc optimizes based on that -march setting, however i'm not 100% certain if this is the case, I suspect not. On Wednesday, 31

Re: [gentoo-user] march athlon-xp to athlon64

2006-05-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 11:52, Ralph Slooten wrote: -march=athlon64 implies -msse2, all amd64 cpus have sse2 support. and some have even sse3 (E6) Also -ftracer is not in the safe cflags list, personally I would not use it but if you believe it benefits you then go ahead. Another

Re: [gentoo-user] march athlon-xp to athlon64

2006-05-31 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Thursday, 1 June 2006 0:38, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Also -ftracer is not in the safe cflags list, personally I would not use it but if you believe it benefits you then go ahead. Another handy tip. Can't remember why I had it (did the research when I reinstalled it 32bit). I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] march athlon-xp to athlon64

2006-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:51:47 +0930 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, 1 June 2006 0:38, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Also -ftracer is not in the safe cflags list, personally I would not use it but if you believe it benefits you then go ahead. Another

Re: [gentoo-user] march athlon-xp to athlon64

2006-05-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 18:29, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:51:47 +0930 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, 1 June 2006 0:38, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Also -ftracer is not in the safe cflags list, personally I would not use it but

Re: [gentoo-user] march athlon-xp to athlon64

2006-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 31 May 2006 18:38:05 +0200 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 31 May 2006 18:29, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:51:47 +0930 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it was harmless and beneficial it'd already be included in an