Ok, the other thread really took off down some odd, and to my eyes way off topic, directions.
Anyway, the idea was to ask for feedback on who has done it and the results they got. To keep things focussed, lets leave out any talk of ARM, cross compiling, small/embedded systems, iphones, Apple, Android, old-fartiness credentials etc :) For context, my system is a 4 core AMD with 10gig ram, SSD for most of the OS and VMs, then software RAID1 for bulk storage. Since yesterday, uptime = 20.27 and no issues noticed. <original email> The CFLAGs used when building the kernel are set in the Makefile; # grep HOSTCFLAGS /usr/src/linux/Makefile HOSTCFLAGS = -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer To build with other flags you set CFLAGS_KERNEL, so i've added a suitable -march to the standard ones for my system; export CFLAGS_KERNEL=" -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -march=amdfam10" then make, install, reboot. In my case the riced kernel is the same size as the regular one, but the md5 is different. Its been up for an hour with no obvious issues, and does seem snappier, but of course my brain is full of cognitive bias. Has anyone else played with this? Any good or bad outcomes? </original email>
