On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:38:14PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > Wouldn't the same kinf of differences as between -march=pentium4 and > -march=athlon-xp appear again? Instruction set just a little bit > different, although largely compatible, different timings for the same > instruction which leads to different object code for the same gcc > "intermediate level" code, ...?
I think so far they haven't diverged. I imagine some day they will, at which point the kernels for such will have to be made again. I think the decision was that for current amd64 cpus there is no point having multiple kernels. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
