>Bruce Endries wrote:
>>
>> Why couldn't the installation program be written to either (a) detect
>> the type of processor, or (b) ask which type of processor is being
>> used?
>>
>> Then install the proper pre-compiled kernel package which would
>> be included in the distribution.
>>
>> Am I way out in left field? It doesn't seem like this should be to
>> awfully hard to do, and would be a big boost to the distribution.
>>
>
>
>Only if we'd decide to deliver it on a DVD *grin*(6 different optimizations,
>size of kernel-packages around 30MB, 6 times 30 and to get maximum effect
>you'd
>have to recompile some major apps - or even more - as well). But what
>keeps you
>from doing it on your own?
>
>tom
>
>[snip]
I would not know where to start! I know *very* little about compiling
programs, hell I have not been able to get the 2.2.x kernel to recompile
and work correctly yet much less everything.
Aaron Winters, Electronic Imaging Manager.
Garner Printing, http://camalott.com/~garner
http://camalott.com/~kaw
