Re: [PLUG] Fedora, K6-2, and LFS...

2010-11-15 Thread Dale Snell
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:29:48 -0800 "Michael C. Robinson" wrote: > Subject: [PLUG] Fedora, K6-2, and LFS... === snip! === > 4: Is there a way to get compiles to optimize for a K6-2 > without compiling on a K6-2? I have a quad core AMD Phenom II > handy. Short answer:

Re: [PLUG] Fedora, K6-2, and LFS...

2010-11-15 Thread Ali Corbin
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > > 4: Is there a way to get compiles to optimize for a K6-2 without >   compiling on a K6-2?  I have a quad core AMD Phenom II handy. Yes, just set it in make menuconfig │ Symbol: MK6 [=n] │ Prompt: K6/K6-II/K6-III │ Defined at

[PLUG] Fedora, K6-2, and LFS...

2010-11-15 Thread Michael C. Robinson
A few issues to mention: 1: Linux From Scratch compiles take a long time on a K6-2. 2: Fedora Core 3 is apparently too old to compile binutils-2.20 where I notice that the 2.6.9 kernel is used. 3: At some point in the Fedora series, the K6-2 CMOV instruction is no longer supported. This