About mtune=atom

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 01/24/2011 12:25 PM, John Reiser wrote:
> On 01/24/2011 07:43 AM, drago01 wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Sergio Belkin<sebelk at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've read on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:RPMMacros#Build_flags_macros_and_variables
>>> that mtune=atom. Just because I'm curious, why?  :)
>>
>> Why not?
>>
>> It is the only 32bit only CPU still being sold,
>
> There are plenty of machines with 32-bit only CPUs (such as early Celeron,
> Pentium socket 478, even some Core Duos [Apple Mini]) which run Fedora very well.

Some early Xeons did not have the 'lm' capability, either.