Re: Package renaming
Hi,
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:35:43PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> - yes, 486, because we don't actually support 386, and compiling a 686
> won't bring much performance improvement as is the case with Linux
> which does assembly optimizations
Err... Conditional moves are a *huge* benefit (in the order of 20% IIRC
in typical code), for compiler-generated code just as much as for
hand-written assembly.
Having said that, I'm not convinced optimising the kernel does make a
lot of difference in the end :-)
(Compiling all userland software for 686 would be much more useful I
guess...)
> - gnumach and gnumach-dbg packages become transition packages to
> gnumach-image-486 and gnumach-image-1.3.99-486-dbg, and break the old
> grub-pc which would assume /boot/gnumach.gz
You mean versions of grub-pc before the patch to add *all* "gnumach*"
binaries instead of just gnumach.gz?
-antrik-
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