Athlon works just great with Mandrake as does K6. You do not have to do anything.
Any applications you compile on your Athlon will by default get compiled as i686 architecture and will include extensions to the instruction set like 3dNow This is why for example the developers of mplayer encourage users to compile for their individual machines rather than use a generic i386 or i586 RPM (Note: The mplayer developers depracate the gcc2.96 compiler that ships with Mandrake because it leaves out the 3DNow optimisations. The alternative gcc3.01 will compile for 3DNow) If you look at /usr/src/linux/.config you can see which processor features were used to compile your current kernel. You will notice there are specific switches to compile in K6 or K7(Athlon) optimised code. The default i586 optimised kernel works just fine with Athlon and you are unlikely to notice any benefit if you recompile for Athlon. However graphics intensive applications such as kde or mplayer should show a benefit because of the i686 extended instruction set and 3DNow optimisations. On Friday 09 November 2001 9:55 am, tek1 wrote: > just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? are > there any issues which i need to be careful about? > > thanks.
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