Re: Stupid question

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 22 November 2004 14:02, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>>>Silly Q of the day probably, but what do I set in a Makefile for
>>>> the -march=option for building on a 233 mhz Pentium 2?
>>>
>>>Now that's really stupid, but here's the answer:
>>>
>>>You run `make menuconfig` (or whichever you like) and choose
>>> Processor Type "Pentium II".
>>
>>If I was building a kernel, then yes my question was stupid.
>>
>>Except I'm not building a kernel, I'm tryng to compile a module to
>>drive some truely dumb hardware, reusing code that was last touched
>>[...]
>
>Well, take a fresh kernel tree, set the desired CPU type, and then
> look at the .config which is generated. Voilà -- in theory ;-)
>
I'm glad you put that caveat in there, Jan. :)

>>Yeah, I'm stupid.  Virtually all of my original C coding has been
>> done on much smaller architectures, and 15 to 20 years ago. 
>> Terminal rust
>
>Never hurts trying to compile a 2.6 for 386SX if the will is strong.
> :-)

On an SX?  No way Jose.  That would take more will power than I have & 
I quit a 2 pack a day habit cold turkey 15+ years ago.  Theres one of 
those things out in a storage shed, won't even run winderz > 95SR1, 
its been tried a couple of times.

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