Recent Fedora Core kernels (plus my SPEC file for 2.6.8-1.541 with Athlon support)

[Bryan J. Smith]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:  
> yes the plan is to not ship the sourcecode package at all for fc3 but
> release note how to get the sourcecode from the src.rpm

I guess I'm still scratching my head.
Is there no way to produce the "kernel-sourcecode-*.noarch.rpm" package
from the _default_ SPEC file?
To me, that would be a default that I would like to debate.
Or at least learn about more reasoning


> actually it is to differentiate local builds vs buildsystem builds;
> mostly that is for my own sanity so that I know my own local builds and
> know that they don't match exact CVS tags

I totally missed the `whoami` in the line.  Doh!  Now it makes perfect
sense.

> the gain Athlon gave previously is, in 2.6 kernels, now a runtime
> option not a compiletime option, so no need to have different kernels
> for athlon anymore.

Really?  Interesting.  I'll have to research that more.
I'm just kinda curious how you could optimally.
Again, I'll have to research more before I ask again.

> why bother ?

I assemble clusters with lots of double precision floating point
operations for engineering applications.

> even in 2.6?

Now that you mention it, I really need to look at this in more detail.

Someone else mentioned the 4GB/4GB setting.  I saw that too.  But no,
I didn't change it in my default SPEC (although I have built some
custom kernels).

I'm kinda curious if Fedora Core should ship a 1GB i686 kernel for
desktops that have 1GB or less, since there is a good chance of a
major performance difference.  The old 1GB/3GB method would be better
for a lot of desktops out there if added.

But that's another debate.


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