On Wednesday 09 July 2003 01:46 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > What kind of speed difference are you seeing between the xp-optimization > and the stock kernel? > LX, I think most agreed that the .16mm MDK multimedia kernel was a better performer than the stock MDK.13 kernel. The 16mmxp version I just compiled does seem a little snappier than the i586 mm I had used before, but I don't have any hard data benchmarks to support that subjective opinion. I think I'll recompile my ck patched 2.4.21 version with the xp flags, and see how that performs.
Robert C. > > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 01:36, Robert Crawford wrote: > > For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with > > pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also > > work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when > > compiling kernels is putting them in the > > linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/Makefile, in the following manner. > > > > First, I installed the MDK multimedia kernel & kernel-source rpms in the > > usual manner. Then I copied the resulting source directory placed in > > /usr/src to my "kernels" directory in ~/home. > > > > Then copy the .config file to another location, go to a console, cd to > > linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk and do make mrproper. Then go into the above > > mentioned Makefile, and comment out the current MK7 flags, and add the > > new flags stanza, like shown below. > > --LX
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