Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-secure - back to UP/non-enterprise?
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Sunday 28 April 2002 11:10, Levi Ramsey wrote: > > On Sun Apr 28 9:51 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote: > >> Running Mandrake 5.2 in front of me is a dual PPro-200 system on a TD6NF > >> mobo. One example does not a statistic make, but... > > > Am I just being stupid, or aren't PPro's i686's? > > It could be me being stupid, but IIRC they didn't make the multi-CPU stuff > entirely happy until very late in the series. > > > IIRC, the chip architecture in the PPro's is the P6, which is the basis > > of everything up to the P4. > > I'm guessing that `basis' != complete feature set. > > Cheers; Leon As I recollect, P-II was electrically the same as the P-pro, but had MMX. In fact, www.Powerleap.com will sell you an accellerator for your UP P-Pro machine using a coppermine celeron processor past 700 MHz, and a PPGA celeron up to 533 MHz for Dual processor systems. So, as long as i686 optimization doesn't include MMX, etc, I think making the SMP kernels i686 optimized is a good move. I think i486 had better SMP support than classic Pentium, and none of the Pentium clones had any. Best Regards, Chuck Shirley
Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-secure - back to UP/non-enterprise?
On Sunday 28 April 2002 11:10, Levi Ramsey wrote: > On Sun Apr 28 9:51 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote: >> Running Mandrake 5.2 in front of me is a dual PPro-200 system on a TD6NF >> mobo. One example does not a statistic make, but... > Am I just being stupid, or aren't PPro's i686's? It could be me being stupid, but IIRC they didn't make the multi-CPU stuff entirely happy until very late in the series. > IIRC, the chip architecture in the PPro's is the P6, which is the basis > of everything up to the P4. I'm guessing that `basis' != complete feature set. Cheers; Leon
Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-secure - back to UP/non-enterprise?
On Sun Apr 28 9:51 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote: > Running Mandrake 5.2 in front of me is a dual PPro-200 system on a TD6NF mobo. > One example does not a statistic make, but... Am I just being stupid, or aren't PPro's i686's? IIRC, the chip architecture in the PPro's is the P6, which is the basis of everything up to the P4. -- Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] When it comes down to desperation, You make the best of your situation. Linux 2.4.18-11mdk 11:01pm up 6 days, 57 min, 7 users, load average: 0.01, 0.13, 0.15
Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-secure - back to UP/non-enterprise?
On Saturday 27 April 2002 18:51, Juan Quintela wrote: > Making SMP versions to work only in i686 & upper is a good move > because Pentium support for multiprocessing is quite bad, and anyways, > there is almost no i586 SMP boards (comparing with i686/athlon boards). Running Mandrake 5.2 in front of me is a dual PPro-200 system on a TD6NF mobo. One example does not a statistic make, but... Cheers; Leon
Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-secure - back to UP/non-enterprise?
On Saturday 27 Apr 2002 16:20, Alexander Skwar wrote: > »Juan Quintela« sagte am 2002-04-27 um 12:51:01 +0200 : > > - i586 > > - i686 > > - i686SMP > > - i686-4GB > > Hm, are there any disadvantages in the -4GB part compared to the plain > kernels? If not, then why not build every kernel with high mem support > and drop the non -4GB ones? > > Alexander Skwar Some things don't work with high memory support -- for example Win4Lin -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB RAM. Registered Linux User 219434. Mandrake Linux release 8.3 (Cooker) Kernel 2.4.18-12mdk, XFree86 4.2.0, patch level 9mdk. KDE: 3.0.1 (CVS >= 20020327). Qt: 3.0.3. Up 22 hours 45 minutes.
Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-secure - back to UP/non-enterprise?
»Juan Quintela« sagte am 2002-04-27 um 12:51:01 +0200 : > - i586 > - i686 > - i686SMP > - i686-4GB Hm, are there any disadvantages in the -4GB part compared to the plain kernels? If not, then why not build every kernel with high mem support and drop the non -4GB ones? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de |Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 3 days 10 hours 19 minutes
