RPM packages: Athlon vs i686 vs i386

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Don Dixon wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I recently submitted what I thought was a bug to bubzilla concerning CPU
> detection and FC1.  The bugzilla number is 116941 if anyone is
> interested in reading in detail.  The basic problem is that I have an
> Athlon XP 1600+ CPU, yet when I boot to the CLI, it says:
>
> Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)
> Kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl on an i686
>
> This exact same hardware, until recently was running RH7.3 and it booted
> to the CLI identifying itself as athlon.  That was the reason I thought
> it was a bug.  On bugzilla, the report has been closed with:
>
> "athlon is always a i686 for the kernel"
>
> So, what I am now wondering about is updates.  I need to know which 
> level of RPM packages to
> load.  For instance with kernels, would I choose 
> kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.athlon.rpm or
> kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.i686.rpm?  And with glibc, do I choose 
> glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i686.rpm
> or glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i386.rpm.
>
> Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Don
> fedora-list_me_no_like_spam at macrologic.com
>
Not a problem.  See http://people.redhat.com/%7Earjanv/2.6/readme.txt
which includes this note:

"I no longer build athlon kernels because in theory the 2.6 kernel now has a
mechanism to automatically runtime patch in these optimisations during boot"

Chris

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