[CLUE-Tech] Which RedHat SMP Version

[Dave Hahn]

Take a look at 'rpm -qa | grep kernel ' and see which kernel RPM was
installed - that should give you RedHat's point of view.

-d

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <jzb at dissociatedpress.net>
To: <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] Which RedHat SMP Version


> On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 10:30, David Anselmi wrote:
> > Warren wrote:
> > [...]
> > >
> > > athlon - AMD Athlon and Duron
> > > i686 - Intel Pentium II, III, and IV / Celeron
> > > i586 - Intel Pentium and AMD K6
> > > i386 - Compatible with all x86
> > >
> > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall seeing a kernel
> > > compiled for "athlon" - I think they and Durons are regarded as
> > > "i686"-types as well.
> >
> > No, athlons and durons are K7s, and AMD K6s are... K6s.  After K7 in the
> > AMD line comes athlon, but that is new to gcc 3 (these are all compiler
> > settings to tell it what instruction set to use).  Debian isn't
> > packaging "athlon" kernels yet, use K7.
>
> Hrm... just peeked at the kernel on my Red Hat box w/a Athlon 1 GHz
> CPU... it's listed as "i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux" -- I wonder what that
> means, exactly... (I haven't recompiled the kernel on this machine,
> since it's just for testing...won't have RH on here much longer...)
>
> Zonker
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