Compiling for CPU (was Re: Performance testing (pass 1))

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 14:57, Glen Maeding wrote:
> Please forgive me if this has already been brought up or not, but did
> someone else ever bring up the possibility of making a page in the
> installation stage where you can choose your processor for it to install
> the kernel with?  Say you have an Athlon, in the radio button list you
> can click on 'Athlon' and it'll install it with the Athlon kernel rpm.

If you have an Athlon, the installer should properly detect that and
install the athlon kernel.  If it doesn't, that's a bug.

There's also now a (undocumented, could go away someday) boot time
option that you can use with 'linux rpmarch=i586' to override the
detection for all those people that have asked about doing the install
on an i686 machine and then moving the hard drive to their i586 box
afterwards.

Cheers,

Jeremy