Why there is no athlon specific kernel in Fedora core 1/2 ?

[VJ]

Cheers Simon.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Andrews" <simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: Why there is no athlon specific kernel in Fedora core 1/2 ?


> VJ wrote:
> > 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.
>
> There is no Athlon specific kernel in FC2 because one is not needed.
> The 2.6 kernel is clever enough to handle any Athlon specific
> optimisations on the fly rather than having to have them compiled in.
> Just use the i686 kernel instead.
>
> Simon.
>
>
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