Am 2015-12-11 um 10:33 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 10.12.2015 um 19:52 schrieb waltd...@waltdnes.org: > >>> Do I have to set that variable then (in make.conf?) ? >> >> Yes, you should. While you're at it, you can remove the corresponding >> flags from the USE= variable. I don't know if they're honored by >> portage any longer. I assume you missed the news item back in January. >> It's archived and you can read it at... >> https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2015-01-28-cpu_flags_x86-introduction.html > > thanks for the pointer, did that right now (still on the i7-2600 ... > waiting). > > I didn't have anything like that in USE= anymore, anyway.
update: machine is here, all three OSes installed already. Snappy performance, nice ... Right now I am fiddling with getting Gnome installed and running. Fedora needed the kernel option "i915.preliminary_hw_support=1" set (in grub.cfg) to enable the skylake graphics.