Messages in this thread |  | | From | "James A. Sutherland" <> | Subject | Re: Installing kernel 2.4 | Date | Wed, 8 Nov 2000 19:43:46 +0000 |
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On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, George Anzinger wrote: > But, here the customer did run the configure code (he said he did not > change anything). Isn't this where the machine should be diagnosed and > the right options chosen? Need a way to say it is a cross build, but > that shouldn't be too hard.
Why default to incompatibility?! If the user explicitly says "I really do want a kernel which only works on this specific machine as it is now, and I want it to break otherwise", fine. Don't make it a default!
BTW: Has anyone benchmarked the different optimizations - i.e. how much difference does optimizing for a Pentium make when running on a PII? More to the point, how about optimizing non-exclusively for a Pentium, so the code still runs on earlier CPUs?
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