On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Stephen King wrote:
> I'm trying to download the source code to configure the kernel and have
> three different RPM's to choice from
>
> linux-2.2.14-5.0.i386.rpm
> linux-2.2.14-5.0.i586.rpm
> linux-2.2.14-5.0.i686.rpm
>
> I just want to make sure i386 is for old 486's and earlier, while i586's are
> Pentiums, and i686's are the new Pentium II and III's. Is this correct?
>
> SK
>
All of these are compiled kernels. What you want is
kernel-source-2.2.16.rpm
>From the sorce code, you can pick the processor you want to
compile/optimize for. This is one of the config options. For the most
part, the same source is used for all processors, including Sparc and
Alpha.
Mikkel
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