How to disable gcc optimization for G3/G4 ?
I'm using Mdk8.0+cooker updates on a 603 ppc computer. I've remarked that gcc compiles software with -mcpu=750 option. I didn't find where this option is defined. Is it in the src packages, or in some gcc configuration file ? Which one ? Is there an optimization available for 603 ? Cheers, Bertrand Dekoninck
Re: kernel upgrade failures (long reading)
Le 2002.02.02 14:24, Miguel Beccari a écrit : Anne et Bertrand wrote: I last recompiled 2.4.17 without xmon and the debugging features. No kernel oops message till now (of course !), but I'm running gnome and it doesn't seem to crash. Wonderful. It is going to be a great day ;) ... Play 2 - 4 - 17 on lotto :) I don't play lotto (or loto, in France), but now I've got a kernel that doesn't use more than 60 Mb of swap when I've got 96Mb of ram, as 2.4.4. did ! Really great ! Thanks, B.D.
Re: kernel upgrade failures (long reading)
Anne et Bertrand wrote: Le 2002.02.02 14:24, Miguel Beccari a écrit : Anne et Bertrand wrote: I last recompiled 2.4.17 without xmon and the debugging features. No kernel oops message till now (of course !), but I'm running gnome and it doesn't seem to crash. Wonderful. It is going to be a great day ;) ... Play 2 - 4 - 17 on lotto :) I don't play lotto (or loto, in France), but now I've got a kernel that doesn't use more than 60 Mb of swap when I've got 96Mb of ram, as 2.4.4. did ! Really great ! Thanks, B.D. You said you are using old 603 ppc. So today I went in my old pc repository and I found 3 ppc 603. Yes, they work, and each one has got 96Mb, 500Mb HD, Floppy, but no CDROM. I tried linux on old Pentium 90 with 64Mb RAM without specials pleasures. I tried openBSD too on old PCs... but the reality is that todays applications (as apache+php+mysql) need high CPU performance, high disk access, etc etc. I never tried with ppc, so I would like to put a 6Gb HardDrive (I have to buy it because of old PPC were SCSI only), and test all. In your opinion : is it possible expecting great performance then my tests on Pentiums 90-133Mhz ? Best regards, Miguel Beccari
Re: kernel upgrade failures (long reading)
You said you are using old 603 ppc. So today I went in my old pc repository and I found 3 ppc 603. Yes, they work, and each one has got 96Mb, 500Mb HD, Floppy, but no CDROM. I tried linux on old Pentium 90 with 64Mb RAM without specials pleasures. I tried openBSD too on old PCs... but the reality is that todays applications (as apache+php+mysql) need high CPU performance, high disk access, etc etc. I never tried with ppc, so I would like to put a 6Gb HardDrive (I have to buy it because of old PPC were SCSI only), and test all. In your opinion : is it possible expecting great performance then my tests on Pentiums 90-133Mhz ? Best regards, Miguel Beccari Mine is 180 mhz. Linux run very well, if not very fast, compared to actual computer. I run X and gnome for years now. Gnome-1.4 has a lot more speed than KDE2, but not nautilus. I use nautilus because I love its antialiased desktop, but gmc would be better for my computer. Mozilla starts up in about 40 seconds but is well usable after (as a browser, not for mail : too slow ; use balsa !). Menus in gtk have the same kind of responsiveness as in MacOS now that I've got really accelerated video (ATi mach 64VT) with the kernel 2.4. This is the point for X. So yes, definitly, linux can run as a desktop OS on my computer. But I can't compare it to your pentiums. My processor is benchemarked 119.60 bogomips at startup by linux. Bertrand Dekoninck.
