I plan to replace an Athlon 900 TB with an Athlon XP. To me, it seems like an easy switch. But I want to make sure it doesn't affect my current installation. Any ideas?
Thanks,
naflan

Should work just fine. I believe the architecture flag for this processor is still amd-tbird. However, even if most of your binaries are compiled with a lesser processor flag (usually i386) your system will work just fine.

Hello naflan,

I recently upgraded my system which runs Slackware 9, with 172 Gnome Dropline packages. I replaced the motherboard from a 66 MHz FSB to a 266-333 FSB, an old 366 MHz Celeron to an AthlonXAMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+, some 66 Mhz SDRam for 333 DDR's and Slack never batted an eyelid. The dual booted windoze installation fell like stone LOL.

munkeh

With slack and the likes you shouldn't have any trouble.Gentoo is another matter.I went from a 900 TB to a Athlon-XP and things where not fine.Don't know why though - a XP should be handle the TB instructions.

Hello,

Warning : I had never tried Gentoo.

Gentoo try to compile everything for the best settings of your proc with the good options for flags. When compiling with gcc you have flags like -mcpu - compile for your proc but include code still compatible with others cpu - and -march - compile for your proc BUT NOT COMPATIBLE with others proc.

with gcc 3.2.2 for example you have many flags like -mcpu=athlon-xp or -mcpu=athlon-tb and the same with -march. Perharps it's the problem when swapping from athlonThunberdird to athlon XP.

HTH

I just reinstalled the whole thing for Athlon-xp doesn't take that long ;-).What I don't get is that the -march athlon-tbird flag generates code that doesn't run well on a Athlon-xp.I figured a xp should be able to handle the code generated for a tbird.But it doesn't - it works but there are some glitches.