I must say, I'm not sure if I'd want to do it just to bring up the
initial prompt, but if there were some process where I could insert my
source CD and let it rebuild all the source packages optimized for my
hardware, and rebuild the kernel optimized for my CPU and the hardware
that I actually have, all automatically, which I could crank off over
the next free weekend after I install Linux, that would be supremely
cool.
Of course I'd want it to leave the working binaries in place and run
some "sanity checks" on the rebuild binaries or something.
Alex V Flinsch wrote:
>
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote:
> > How about compiling a kernel that is optimized for your CPU at install
> > time. How many times does one change CPU types after installing linux
> > on that machine. ie. AFAIK my Athlon machine is running the same kernel
> > as my K6-2's, it sure would be nice if when I installed linux would
> > either prompt or detect my CPU and install/compile one that is optimized
> > for my machine.
> >
>
> If you are going down this path, why not recompile everything as it is being
> installed? The major drawback would be that installation would take forever...
>
> --
> Alex
> (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
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