Re[2]: compiling kernel
Hello Lazar,
Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 2:31:21 AM, you wrote:
>> fleysh > Could someone, however, explain the difference between
>> fleysh >-- "586" for generic Pentium CPUs, possibly lacking the TSC
>> fleysh >and
>> fleysh >-- "Pentium" for the Intel Pentium/Pentium MMX, AMD K5, K6 and K6-3D
>> fleysh >
>> fleysh >and how to check if my CPU supports TSC?
>> fleysh >
Imho, "586" is for 3-rd party CPU models, that might not support all
Intel Pentium abilities (such as "Timestamp Counter Register" ;),
whilst "Pentium" is for another ones - that do. In general, I'd
recommend you to compile for "Pentium" and if it won't boot (the
kernel source says, it won't boot on CPU without TSC), just recompile
it for "586".
As for me, "Pentium" worked on *all* Intel machines I've seen, not
sure about about AMD and Cyrix (and whoever? :)
--
Regards,
Ivan mailto:skywriter@rnc.ru
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