Re: Best Kernel?
On 10/27/07, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <ghostbar38@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kelly Clowers wrote:
> > The cpuid program should be able to tell you if you have a 32 bit
> > Sempron or a 64 bit Sempron. Even if you have a Sempron64, I
> > am not sure if you can/should run a 64 bit kernel while using
> > Debian's i386 arch.
>
> No, you need to use a complete 64bit userland for using amd64,
> translation: You have to reinstall your machine.
I thought that was the case, but I wasn't 100% sure.
> >
> > In any case, the the k7 kernel will be better than the 486.
> >
> >> And, when I am ready to upgrade, do I just run an apt-get install
> >> linux-image-2.6.22-2-*?
> >
> > Yes, but you may want to install the k7 meta-package, which
> > always depends on a recent k7 kernel, so you don't have to
> > manually update your kernel image. Just install linux-image-k7
> > and it will do the rest.
>
> Well, if you have modules compiled against your actual kernel and in a
> full-upgrade magically upgrades your kernel you're gonna live a
> nightmare next time you reboot your machine. But if you don't build
> specific modules to your kernel then go ahead :-).
Oh, well, yeah, if you have out-of-source modules, that will cause some
issues. I knew that, but didn't remember to mention it, because I don't
use those kind of modules myself. Thank for catching that.
Cheers,
Kelly
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