Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: > 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.
Thanks for the response! I'm not quite so interested in building a custom kernel yet. But I think it would be cool to do one day! -- Joshua Branson (joshuaBPMan in #guix) Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels https://propernaming.org "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar
