WHOOPS! Time for Vacation. It's not my K^, it's my Pentium 200MHz I need it for. <smacks forehead> Shesh!
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 13:19 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:22 -0500, Steve wrote:
William L. Maltby wrote:
I have the problem that I almost never throw anything away that can still be useful. In itself, not bad. Combined with the "World We Live In" (TM), a "Less Than Optimal Behavior" (SM).
I need some of the features in CentOSPlus kernels for my 586 (K6-III).
I believe that the 686 kernel is compiled with the 586 or 486 instruction set but optimized for i686. (There is almost no benefit from using the few new i686 instructions, though a few people still moan about it.) A 586 kernel I believe would use the 586 instruction set and be optimized for an Intel Pentium 1. I'm not sure how much the K6-III would benefit from the Intel optimizations. The K6-III was a superior chip. (I really liked my 450, and you gotta love the 3 levels of cache.)
If I were you, I'd just use yum the prebuilt one.
Umm... I was led to believe that I might need a 586-specific one by the fact that the base system must provide one for installs to succeed, IIRC and RH made a point of saying they no longer support 586. Is that just install-time incompatibility and RH problem resolution support? If the kernel in Plus is suffixed with -686, what's that mean to me?
Thanks for taking the time, regardless.
-Steve
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