Bryan Scaringe wrote:
>
> I recently acquired an AMD-K6-2 300Mhz.
>
> Since the pre-compiled binaries that one can download
> from the 'net can (or are supposed to) run on a
> garden variety i386, they are probably not
> optimized for more modern processors.
>
> I am looking for opinions on what packages/apps
> are worth recompiling.
>
> Obviously the kernel, but what about X, the X server,
> and various applications?
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan Scaringe
I have a Cyrix686 P150, I think that just about anything will compile
and run just fine (everything has for me so far). There is an
opimization patch for Cyrix and I assume AMD called set686, don't
remember where I got it but you should be able to find it. My
understanding is it utilizes some of the Cyrix features, makes things
run better, etc. I haven't noticed much difference really.
