On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
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> Thanks Mikkel, That appears to be the fix. As I have only done this a few
> times, I have another question. I selected PPro as the cpu type in
> menuconfig but I notice that in all the lines I have seen scroll by, the
> -m486 flag is set.. Is this correct?
>
>
>
> There are two pentium II 333 MHz processors in the machine
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Bret
>
Hi Bret,
Yes, the -m486 flag is the correct one. For this flag, when
compiling the kernel, the only choices are -m386 and -m486. I am not sure
of all the details, but I think the flags handle how data structures are
alligned. The 486 allignment will sometimes wast space, but allows faster
accessing. There is some other optimizing done for the newer processors,
but this is done using other flags, as well as some stuff done in the
source code. I am not sure if it still applies, but I know with the 2.0.x
kernels, you also had to make sure you used the correct version of the
compiler because the latest version would break some things...
Mikkel
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