Athlon Incompatible Packages

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 01:03 -0500, Tom Diehl wrote:

[snip]
>
> For the 3rd time IT IS NOT WORTH THE EFFORT. The packages that can see
> significant performance gains by compiling for Athlon are already available.
> The rest are compiled with i686 optimizations and that is good enough.
> 
> Look at the kernel packages for instance. You have an Athlon kernel available.
> 
Ehm, not anymore; 2.6 kernels are available in i386 and i686 variants
only. IIRC some runtime CPU detection is being done, similar to what
MPlayer does.

Regards,

Michel
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