Re: is there a linux-image-2.6.17-x-amd64-k8?

[Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:38:14PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> Wouldn't the same kinf of differences as between -march=pentium4 and
> -march=athlon-xp appear again? Instruction set just a little bit
> different, although largely compatible, different timings for the same
> instruction which leads to different object code for the same gcc
> "intermediate level" code, ...?

I think so far they haven't diverged.  I imagine some day they will, at
which point the kernels for such will have to be made again.  I think
the decision was that for current amd64 cpus there is no point having
multiple kernels.

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Len Sorensen