Why there is no athlon specific kernel in Fedora core 1/2 ?

Simon Andrews simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk
Tue Jul 27 12:57:29 UTC 2004


VJ wrote:
> Why is the athlon optimised compiled kernel available in Fedora? Also if I
> try to rebuild from SRPM, it tells me that athlon architecture is not
> included.

There is no Athlon specific kernel in FC2 because one is not needed. 
The 2.6 kernel is clever enough to handle any Athlon specific 
optimisations on the fly rather than having to have them compiled in. 
Just use the i686 kernel instead.

Simon.





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