On 5/26/05, shirish agarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>            Let me rephrase the question little bit more. When I meant
> any improvements on the CLI side I had assumed couple of things. As
> far as my understanding goes the system treats u'r system as a 386
> box. 

No Do uname -a and the processor and its family will be seen to you

>Now if I've a p4 then all the added registers & any mathematical
> extensions & graphic extensions which 've been hard-coded into the
> processor are of no use when the CLI is running. When I recompile the
> kernel it should take all these into account hence when I'm doing some
> source compiling there should be some kind of benefit. 

You have to select the type or processor/processor family during compilation
Processor specific code is present in the arch subtree of the kernel.

>The other thing
> is also for SATA 150 or PATA 133 there should be some kind of disk
> access improvements. 

Sure if you have chosen the proper parameters

Regards,
Ashwin

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