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spyghost 10-20-2003 04:01 AM
linux kernel differences
 
hi,

i am just wondering what makes the i686, i586, and athlon kernels different from each other... they also have the boot, bigmem, and the smp... what are those?

also i noticed that source packages are always in i386... why?

yapp 10-20-2003 04:51 AM
A kernel can be optimized for a certain processor architecture. For example, and Athlon kernel uses high performance features of the AMD Athlon chip, and doesn't work at an Intel Pentium 4 system.

If you compile a kernel, you have to choose what architecture you're building the kernel for.

I don't know about the source packages, perhaps they use common code that works at every PC platform? :rolleyes: But I'd expect to see i386 for binaries only :confused:


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