The experimental use flag turns on the other arch's in gentoo-sources. Perhaps that will help identify which is the relevant patch?
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Fernando Rodriguez <cyklon...@gmail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 07/20/2016 07:38 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > On 07/20/2016 02:54 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:33:04 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > >>> I don't use gentoo sources but I remember reading about gentoo patches > >>> for processor specific optimizations and being tempted to try them. Is > >>> it possible that is what you're refering to? > >>> > >>> The vanilla sources only shows 5 choices for me on amd64: > >>> (X) Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8 > >>> ( ) Intel P4 / older Netburst based Xeon > >>> ( ) Core 2/newer Xeon > >>> ( ) Intel Atom > >>> ( ) Generic-x86-64 > >>> > >>> And it shows a different set of options when I run it on an x86 > machine. > > > >> That's what I get here, but help lists all the ones I get in > >> gentoo-sources, apart from MNATIVE, which indicates to me that those > >> options should be available, once I work out how to switch them on. > > > > Disable CONFIG_64BIT and you'll get them all. > > And for future references, here's how I found out: > > 1. On the sources where you have the options highlight one of them and > press ? (help). You'll see X86_32 under "Depends on:". > > 2. Hit ESC twice and then twice again to return to a menu with > search functionality. Then type /X86_32 and hit enter. You'lll see that > the option depends on !64BIT, so you need to disable CONFIG_64BIT for > X86_32 to be available. > > 3. After disabling CONFIG_64BIT on the kernel where the options where > missing > I searched X86_32 again and this time it has [=y] next to it so it came > on automatically and the options showed up but for some options you > need to > enable manually after enabling the dependencies. > > - -- > > Fernando Rodriguez > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2 > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXkCBTAAoJEPbOFX/5UlwcR8sP/2kwuumtlSymDTyPj4CFS0Q7 > noRYWAzutRKDb6GTrobwB5zDVwJTUORuoRE+XXQFeVWRQhjSI2wsaRGL/Cn8duhW > QTdgtvrV8T6bdcjftVbeExFvKTDrMXUAEbd+XyRObj7r13454GtYdgOIpktxwDrH > D2a3bR2NX7fMxFfSBk4osv3UkoL3xM201MXwUhZgOtTaX/DAw12gSg1ljTJ8UV7O > snu+Td9YHcoohrmBpN4yX7uaBL4LnZZnBv59TZekXDv6DGyc70QZO97gNGOvG2SC > www7wsM28/hrKqeQI5CNcpl6UvibQGndThld7y1Y5YeByHEBHt31yZp97g1Ira5T > 2iadpgoSFiMaCy2+BXfIjktLbIe9E5vH15dVMKxuWazrf7Zf9XszxuU6nZE3RiN5 > J9ytAwL/RESjQwB11p3LLf/1zgyYAtIzt/N7QrbvJmHmjj7WyRMK6QCLJsew7izl > g/Hjsqvq73QvNdRfjbxTK19sOO1clpJfAdvyHELR+TVvJDAooWFj/8KBfSGCimkv > 6bVnDFKIB/ov/o3ZhX121FHq/zH6SH/CxbVozIuTTiowumgftgPMapEiXRIvp/+S > ar8dcUF+xiRcKOmx4mBctOxQQ6R0z0o1oWItyjioyB0Rb09kMVjNCQuvq9IpPzLn > kl+C7ndrh4etobK9nv2A > =fojV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
