Re: K6 200

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:11:02 +0100 (GMT/BST)


On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Jonathan Shelton wrote:

> I currently am running RedHat 4.2 kernel 2.0.30 with a K6 200. I do only
> have 32M (fpram) . My machiene runs fine. I have compiled for pentium ,
> and PPro. Both kernels work <for me> , I was just interested to find out
> if one could compile with K5/K6 optimization (including kernal). Please
> let me know as I am just a lowly user. Thank you for your time and
> effort.

Compiling for Pentium or PPro (aka x86 family 5 or 6) will get
suitable code/data alignments. The only other optimisation that
is likely to be done in the future is to enable allocation of
cache lines on writes.

Mike

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