|
| Justa general question, I decied to try (out of interest)
| compiling a kernel with -mpentium instead of -m486 in the
| ./arch/i386/Makefile
|
| it seems to work.. but is there any reason why I wouldnt wanna do this for
| stability and/or timing reasons?
Only for the fact that it'll make broken kernels now and then. If it'll
boot, you're probably OK, but I've found that pgcc makes so many broken
kernels that it's not worth my while...too much hit and miss. If you need
that extra 0.02% performance boost, though, go nuts.
m i k e b u r r e l l
mikpos@home.com
http://mikpos.dyndns.org
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