Greetings! Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:14:53PM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote: > > Greetings, and thank you so much for this helpful information! > > > > 1) I notice you reference 'apic'. Do you happen to know to what that > > refers? The ones I recognize are mmx,xmm,and amd3d. > > > > 2) There are some small differences between k6 amd3d and athlon amd3d. > > Do you know which is referred to here? > > The flags correspond to output from /proc/cpuinfo (the "flags" field). > Like on my Celeron laptop I have: > > %cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 >pn mmx fxsr > I'm getting around to this now, and had a question: What is the flag that indicates SSE2 (I take it xmm -> SSE1). I've looked through the kernel source, and cannot find it. Thanks! > > 3) We've already had a brief discussion about this, but to fill you > > in, the major two alternatives are to either have several package > > binaries for each sub-arch, or to have all libs in one binary > > package. In either case, it sounds like a good ide to use the > > right subdir. I was wondering if you had a suggestion between > > these two alternatives. > > For libc6 I use seperate packages, but that is mainly because I don't want > to force everyone to install all of these libs (since everyone has to have > libc6 whether they want it or not :) > > The downside to seperate packages, is the increase in the Packages file, > and the number of available packages in the dist. > > > 4) Most importantly, it appears that atlas cannot cross-compile, > > i.e. the compiled code must *run* on the compilation machine. From > > what I can see, this makes it impossible to autobuild fully > > optimized version(s) of this package given the current machines at > > Debian's disposal. I can set the package up to autobuild a generic > > x86 lib, like it does currently, which will autobuild successfully. > > But I could also produce a fully optimized binary package covering > > p3,p2,k6,k7 given the machines available here. My question: is > > there anyway to get such a binary package to override the > > auto-built binary packages in the distribution? > > That's a downfall in atlas, IMO. There should be a way to compile for a > CPU, without actually having that CPU. You will most likely have to hack > the atlas build process to get this done. > > -- > -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ > / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ > ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' > `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---' > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
