About mtune=atom

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 17:07 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Sergio Belkin wrote:
> > I've read on
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:RPMMacros#Build_flags_macros_and_variables
> > that mtune=atom. Just because I'm curious, why?  :)
> 
> Because everything that's not an Atom should be using x86_64 these days
> (unless it's ancient, in which case you can't be aiming at performance that
> much or you'd have already bought a newer, much faster CPU ;-) ).
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 

... Let alone that fact that even my meager ATOM 330 based ASUS 1201N
netbook is x86_64 capable. (And runs F14/x86_64 quite nicely)

- Gilboa