On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 14:25 +0100, Paul wrote:
Hi,
Why is the athlon optimised compiled kernel available in Fedora? Also if I try to rebuild from SRPM, it tells me that athlon architecture is not included.
Certainly from the 2.6 kernel there wasn't an Athlon option - mainly as the kernel now self detects the processor and applies the optimisations itself. You just have to use the i686 version to access this.
There certainly IS an option in 2.6 for Athlon- it is CONFIG_MK7, in the kernel config menu it is under "Processor type and features --> Processor Family" (with Subarchitecture type set to "PC-compatible").
Note: I've been using the kernel-source rpm to build custom kernels, rather than trying to use the kernel SRPM (I also am not yet up to the latest FC2 kernel on my laptop), so I can't say what the issue is with the original poster, but I suspect he'll need to update the spec file as well as the kernel config used in the SRPM.