Re: [expert] Intel Chip Types (was) Mandrake sub-optimized for i686?

[David Weiser]

Tom Snell wrote:

> Matt Stegman wrote:
>
> > I don't know about Coppermine and such -
> > I need to keep up to date with this - but I do know that AMD's Athlon is
> > the first i786 processor to be sold.
>
> OK,since Mandrake docs don't seem to address the issue (no doubt due to the
> 'newness' of the CPU), how should an Athlon be designated in a kernel
> recompile, and will there be a distinct "Athlon" optimization in future
> kernel versions?  Anyone know?
>
> Tom

I have seen the Anthlon code in the newer kernals "2.3.?"