Re: Optimizing fron source

2001-07-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Victor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010722 13:16]: > I've installed debian potato 2.2r3 and compiled my own 2.2.19 kernel > to take into account my real hardware. > > I see that deb packages are built for a generic i386 processor. Even if the .deb resulting from your make-kpkg adventures says i386 in

Re: Optimizing fron source

2001-07-22 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:41:56AM -0400, dude wrote: > There was recently a thread on this aobut > optimizing for newer chips > but i thought i read that > the speed increase was not worth > the compile time. > > What do others think? The thing is, very very few packages are CPU bound enough for

Re: Optimizing fron source

2001-07-22 Thread dude
ED]> > To: debian-user > Subject: Optimizing fron source > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > I've installed debian potato 2.2r3 and compiled my own 2.2.19 kernel > to take into account my real hardware. > > I see that deb packages are built for a generic i386

Optimizing fron source

2001-07-22 Thread Victor
I've installed debian potato 2.2r3 and compiled my own 2.2.19 kernel to take into account my real hardware. I see that deb packages are built for a generic i386 processor. If I want to optimize for my i686 processor can I compile debian sources packages or are they packaged to be i386 compatible