[CLUE-Tech] Athlon = i686 in kernel 2.4.7 Makefile

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Timothy C. Klein wrote:

> * Jed S. Baer (thag at frii.com) wrote:
> > As I mentioned before, the test you mention isn't in my makefile. This is
> > the 2.4.7-10 kernel. It explicitly sets march=i686 when CONFIG-MK7 is
> > defined. The test you mention must be a later kernel release.
> >
>
> Oh yeah, you did say that.  For grins, I downloaded the 2.4.7 source
> tree, and looked at it.  That tree does have the line to use the Athlon
> arch if it is available.  The relevant lines ar 65-67 of:
>
> linux/arch/i386/Makefile.
>
> So, if it is in that source tree by default, why the heck would RedHat
> take it out?  That just baffles me.

IIRC there have been some issues with the Athlon optimizations on
some chipsets. I don't recall the specifics, but apparently there
were some problems. This might be the reason.

Zonker
--
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier -=- jbrockmeier at earthlink.net
http://www.DissociatedPress.net/
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear." -- Mark Twain