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  From: Anthony Rumble <smilie@emusys.com.au>
  To  : MWP <hirm@chariot.net.au>
  Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 00:21:39 +1000 (EST)

Re: Redhat i686 or i585 cds

On Sun, 23 May 1999, MWP wrote:

And that doesn't take into account how many things would break by these
new optimisations..

Just be carefull doing this kind of stuff, it can produce subtle bugs that
may not become aparant early.

Anthony

> I think what he was asking about was not just the kernel, but all of RH6.0
> (apps included).
> 
> Tim, myself, i doubt if RedHat would even consider distributing 5 or more
> different versions of RH6.0 for different iX86 platforms.... it would cost
> them too much.
> 
> The best thing I can sugest is to go download the source for egcs (about
> 12Mb) and then the PentiumGCC patch for egcs. Then after about 1.5hrs of
> compiling egcs you will be able to compile all prog sources optimised for
> your CPU. This, of course means you will have to get the source tars for new
> apps rather than just getting the RPMS.
> 
> So far, im not sure how much speed is gained by using PGCC, but it would be
> at least 25% in most apps (pure speculation) as the orig gcc only optimised
> for the i386 or i486.
> 
> Mark Williams
> 
> 
> > On Sun, 23 May 1999, Tim Ansell wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone know where i can get a Red Hat 6 distr. which has been
> > > optimized for the i585 or i686?
> >
> > RedHat 6 comes with kernels optimised for i386,i486,i586 and i686 as well
> > as SMP.. it works out which is the most appropriate kernel to run at
> > install time.
> >
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