Re: unable to compile a kernel
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:16:36 +0200
martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
> also sprach Chris Metzler <cmetzler@speakeasy.net> [2003.06.06.0952
> +0200]:
>> I'm coming in late to this thread; but as I understand it, you get
>> the usual errors compiling the kernel with gcc-3.3; but when you
>> compile your kernel with gcc-2.95, it gripes about the athlon
>> switch. Is that right? If so, what keeps you from compiling your
>> kernel with gcc-2.95 but not specifying athlon?
>
> How? I do want to make the kernel processor-specific for performance
> reasons. Is there a way to make it -march=k7 rather than
> -march=athlon?
Not that I know of. But given a choice between having a kernel
that isn't optimized for your specific processor, and having
no kernel at all, I would expect the former to be better?
-c
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