[CentOS] CentOSPlus Kernel for 586?

Thu Jun 8 17:32:32 UTC 2006

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
> > <snip sig stuff>
> 
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Bill
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