Sthu Deus <sthu.d...@gmail.com> writes: > Good day. > > Just wanted to ask, Why there is no linux-image package for i586, > especially w/ MMX support - but only for i486, then for i686 and up?
I don't think all that many people have i586 boxen. They were current in the timeframe 1995 through 1997. That's over a dozen years ago. The i486 kernel will run on an i586 box. Even if you compile the kernel for i586 how much speed are you really going to get? A few percent? And how much time do you spend in kernel as opposed to userland? Maybe 3-20 percent depending on what you are doing right? So, in rough numbers, that's a 10% off on 10% of what you do for a net of roughly 1%. If you actually care about speed, you might upgrade to a new cpu. People should be giving away pentium-iii and early athlon boxes for free. (Depending on where you live &c.) > Thank You for Your time. -- Johan KULLSTAM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aalgiw61....@emmy.axel.nom
