On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 12:56:45PM -0400, Joshua Branson wrote: > I'm kind of curious, if I were to compile my own linux kernel, and I > could someone select a newer processor family, would that make my kernel > a little more faster? Or would it just make my kernel image a little > smaller? Also my laptop is a Lenovo T400. So it doesn't exactly have > NEW features. :)
Just to clarify, these kernel configuration options are for when one builds the kernel for "i686-linux" (Guix parlance) or "i386" (Linux parlance). This means 32-bit Intel-compatible. The T400 has a Core 2 Duo 64-bit procesor, so these options won't apply for you. That's "x86_64-linux" or "amd64", respectively. However, yes, you can build a custom kernel to eke out some performance improvements.
