Re: Lenny and K7 AMD

[Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:09, Account for Debian group
mail<debian@pcez.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We are just starting to update our Etch machines to Lenny. Anyway we have
> several machines that run AMD Athlon processors. With Etch we were running
> "linux-image-2.6-k7 - Linux kernel 2.6 image on AMD K7", but when we updated
> to Lenny it put in a "vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-486" which looks like a 486 kernel
> not a K7 kernel.
>
> It does not look like this new kernel is using everything the Athlon has to
> offer. It there another linux-image we can use that will use all the AMD
> Athlon has to offer?

I believe that Athlons should now use the 686 kernel version (unless in
64-bit mode, of course).


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers