On 29/10/07 15:11 -0700, Adam Talbot wrote: > Strange, GCC just finished compiling. No errors and I have the system > running i686 native. > I tuned with CFLAGS="-Os -march=i686 -pipe" > -Adam
Most people will be happy. But the potential does exist, and so I have to go the safe route and recommend i586, lest somebody see my words on an e-mail archive somewhere and encounter real breakage and yell at me. As always, your milage may vary, and if you get better mileage then the dealer says you do, I say go with it.. :) Jordan > ron minnich wrote: > > On 10/29/07, Jordan Crouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> You shouldn't use 686 - these are i586 instruction sets. But there are > >> some native i686 instructions, and they do run the risk of tripping you > >> up (as happened to OLPC last year when readhat put 686 native instructions > >> into 'as', with the less then hilarious results). > >> > >> > > > > don't know why gmail just sent that last message. Sorry > > > > I wonder if this also broke grub. I have a grub from FC7 which won't > > work on qemu. Neat, eh? A bootloader that is cpu-specific. > > > > ron > > > > > > > -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
