On 02/07/2014 09:21 AM, James Harrison wrote: > Hello, > I remember the times when Redhat software releases (6.2, 7.3, 8, 9) had a > specific kernel for AMD and Intel CPUs. > > Now forward on to present day and Red Hat software has one kernel build for > AMD and Intel CPUs. When was the decision to switch to an all in one > encompassing kernel and is there a performance hit. What allows us to have > one kernel build for two different CPUs? > > The reason I ask these questions is that Ubuntu is still distinguishing > between AMD and Intel CPUs. Why, and what is the difference between what they > do and what Red Hat do to their Kernel compiles. >
Hmm ... I didn't know that. I'm sure there is some reason for it but I know of no kernel issues that require this to be the case. I suppose there *might* be some performance benefit but I would have thought by now we would have heard from Red Hat Customers who require an AMD kernel. P. _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
