Re: Possibility of adding -march=native to x86

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:12:45PM +0100, Michael Lothian wrote:
> > The MPENTIUM4 option does not only set -march=pentium4, it also enables
> > several other options in arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu resulting in better
> > performance.
> 
> How about an autodetect to set the right options here too using cpuid?
> 
> With a warning of course that the code produced will be specifically
> for the native cpu that it's compiled on.

If you don't know or can figure out yourself the CPU you have, you'd 
better not compile your own kernel...

cu
Adrian

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