Re: [gentoo-user] Going from P3 to Athlon XP (fwd)

2003-08-21 Thread Jason Nielsen
> >>On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:56, stephen wrote: > >> > >>>I'm replacing my P3 850/Asus CUV4X with an Athlon 2700+/Asus A7N8X-X, but > >>>would like to keep my gentoo intact as much as I can. > >>> > >>>Currently I use CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" > >>> and have things li

Re: [gentoo-user] Going from P3 to Athlon XP

2003-08-21 Thread MAL
Jason Nielsen wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, daniel wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:56, stephen wrote: I'm replacing my P3 850/Asus CUV4X with an Athlon 2700+/Asus A7N8X-X, but would like to keep my gentoo intact as much as I can. Currently I use CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-poi

Re: [gentoo-user] Going from P3 to Athlon XP

2003-08-20 Thread Bryce
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 12:21 pm, Jason Nielsen wrote: > Try this: > > 1) Pull the HD from your old system and shove it in your new one. > 2) Fire up your new system with the Gentoo install CD > 3) Mount your old partitions under /mnt/gentoo say > 4) make a chroot jail like you do when installi

Re: [gentoo-user] Going from P3 to Athlon XP

2003-08-20 Thread Jason Nielsen
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, daniel wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:56, stephen wrote: > > I'm replacing my P3 850/Asus CUV4X with an Athlon 2700+/Asus A7N8X-X, but > > would like to keep my gentoo intact as much as I can. > > > > Currently I use CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

Re: [gentoo-user] Going from P3 to Athlon XP

2003-08-20 Thread MAL
stephen wrote: By the way, is there any reason to avoid the fomit-frame-pointer flag for the athlon? It improves very little and breaks some packages, (even though those I know about mask it, like courier). Plus, debugging is apparently then impossible on some platforms, (maybe x86 maybe not :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Going from P3 to Athlon XP

2003-08-20 Thread stephen
On 20 Aug 2003 15:43:40 +0200, Stefan Hildebrandt wrote > And SSE, too. Only add 3dnow (after install the athlon) > (Normaly the athlon xp should work with all the p3 binarys) > > Set CFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -O3 -pipe" > install the drive on your P3. > > emerge -eD system (base system and compiler ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Going from P3 to Athlon XP

2003-08-20 Thread MAL
Stefan Hildebrandt wrote: The Athlon XP supports MMX. And SSE, too. Only add 3dnow (after install the athlon) (Normaly the athlon xp should work with all the p3 binarys) Set CFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -O3 -pipe" install the drive on your P3. emerge -eD system (base system and compiler need to be on a "sav

Re: [gentoo-user] Going from P3 to Athlon XP

2003-08-20 Thread Stefan Hildebrandt
On Mit, 2003-08-20 at 15:32, MAL wrote: > daniel wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:56, stephen wrote: > > > >>I'm replacing my P3 850/Asus CUV4X with an Athlon 2700+/Asus A7N8X-X, but > >>would like to keep my gentoo intact as much as I can. > >> > >>Currently I use CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3

Re: [gentoo-user] Going from P3 to Athlon XP

2003-08-20 Thread MAL
Mike Williams wrote: 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 y

Re: [gentoo-user] Going from P3 to Athlon XP

2003-08-20 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 August 2003 14:25, daniel wrote: > 1. edit make.conf to have the following: >CFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -O3 -pipe" > Not questioning your knowledge, rather my own. Isn't there a -mcpu=athlon-xp ? I suspect your later use (st

Re: [gentoo-user] Going from P3 to Athlon XP

2003-08-20 Thread MAL
daniel wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:56, stephen wrote: I'm replacing my P3 850/Asus CUV4X with an Athlon 2700+/Asus A7N8X-X, but would like to keep my gentoo intact as much as I can. Currently I use CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" and have things like mmx and sse in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Going from P3 to Athlon XP

2003-08-20 Thread Mike Williams
-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

Re: [gentoo-user] Going from P3 to Athlon XP

2003-08-20 Thread daniel
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:56, stephen wrote: > I'm replacing my P3 850/Asus CUV4X with an Athlon 2700+/Asus A7N8X-X, but > would like to keep my gentoo intact as much as I can. > > Currently I use CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" > and have things like mmx and sse in my USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Going from P3 to Athlon XP

2003-08-20 Thread MAL
stephen wrote: I'm replacing my P3 850/Asus CUV4X with an Athlon 2700+/Asus A7N8X-X, but would like to keep my gentoo intact as much as I can. Currently I use CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" and have things like mmx and sse in my USE flags (should I take those out and use

[gentoo-user] Going from P3 to Athlon XP

2003-08-20 Thread stephen
I'm replacing my P3 850/Asus CUV4X with an Athlon 2700+/Asus A7N8X-X, but would like to keep my gentoo intact as much as I can. Currently I use CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" and have things like mmx and sse in my USE flags (should I take those out and use 3dnow instead