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]
