On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 03:33:52PM +0000, Tim Channon wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... >> k7 appears to be dead. use -686 or roll your own. > > Dead? k7 is in etch, lenny and sid the -k7 packages in sid are transitional packages that depend on -686. hence my calling k7 dead. > > There have been bug issues with Deb 4 over AMD SMP needing the K7 > variant and there is the matter of gcc4 biasing to Intel. Which is > installed is also related to which install is used. CD1 does not include > K7 but DVD1 does and netinstall will use it too. > Apparently popularity shows a rather large usage out there. It doesn't > of course follow that k7 is the best choice. I use (or did anyway) -k7 on several machines... My vague understanding is that the performance gains of compiling for k7 were insufficient to warrant the extra binary image. But that's vague at best. A
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