-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 August 2003 14:19, MAL wrote:
> The main problem will be pentium3 specific instructions used because of > the -march switch. Unless someone can state for certain that the Athlon > XP is backward compatible with the pentium3, (unlikely), you will need > to recompile your entire system. > > In theory, emerge -eD world, should do this. However this poses a > problem in itself, because if you compile it on the old motherboard, > with -march=athlon-xp, it will break when a newly compiled utility tries > to use athlon-xp instructions on the P3. > > It may be possible to untar the i386 stage1 tarball over the top of your > existing system, which would mean your base system, (bare bones boot, > glibc and compiler), will run on the new motherboard. > > You should then be able to 'emerge -eD world'. Don't take this for > gospel :) How about recompiling everything with -mcpu=athlon-xp on the P3, will work on both then. Could change to -march=athlon-xp at a later date, if so wanted. - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Q3fDInuLMrk7bIwRArk3AJ9rzs9ctNkzcJMWxHCQpsJB+vVJOgCfRbhQ BQbfGbekhLo7DIrQPo3sNvk= =CZh1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
