What about k8-smp? francesco pietra
On Monday 26 June 2006 07:58, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 08:06:39PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 08:20:56AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > * Frederik Schueler: > > > > -generic is odd and too long. I am considering to change the naming > > > > scheme completely, and call the flavours 2.6.x-y-amd64 and > > > > 2.6.x-y-em64t respectively. > > > > > > Newer GCCs produce AMD64 code which is supposed to be closed to > > > optimal to what GCC can produce on EM64T. Does it still make sense to > > > distinguish between them? Or has it got something to do with the way > > > the kernel sets up its data structures? > > > > The officially recommended way to build a distro kernel is to build > > the generic one. It's as fast as the specific ones because it uses > > some binary patching during bootup. The only thing you save with the > > specific options is a tiny little bit of space. > > I'm going to second this suggestion. > > The time I spend waiting for both a -k8 and -emt64 version to download > and install when I'm upgrading a few machines is going to be far longer > than any time saved by some optimizations that aren't already > done by the generic kernel. > > Just make a 'amd64-generic' kernel and be done with it, unless you have > benchmarks showing a real performance difference. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
