Re: Fresh Install Problems
hendrik@topoi.pooq.com writes:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:51:20PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:49:21PM -0600, smugzilla wrote:
>> > That brings me to my next question: why are the kernel naming
>> > conventions inconsistent? uname -r says I am currently running
>> > 2.6.8-em64t-p4-smp but no corresponding version of kernel 2.6.18 is
>> > available from Arizona's sid repository. They do have a version for
>> > amd64, which is what I would have thought I needed, but now I'm
>> > confused. What kernel flavor am I looking for, assuming that my CPU is
>> > an old Athlon 64?
>>
>> There used to be packages for different amd64 flavours: amd64-generic,
>> amd64-k8, amd64-k8-smp, em64t-p4, em64t-p4-smp.
>>
>> Now there is simply amd64, which combines all of them, including smp.
>>
>> (I don't know what purpose amd64-generic survived, since both flavours
>> (amd64-k8, em64t-p4) were covered by exact matches. But it's gone now.)
>
> It was useful if you didn't know which amd64 you had :-)
>
> -- hendrik
Untill somone noticed that the only changes is some cache alignment
and both amd64 and em64t runs on the other kind as well.
The smp and non-smp flavours got merged by the on-the-fly patching of
the kernel so we are left with the two image types only.
MfG
Goswin
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