Big_Baller Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 Ok I am a noob. Anyways I downloaded the 2.6.1 kernel source and I want to compile it for my computer. I have an amd xp processor but non of the arch's look right. The only one that I recognize is i386 but I have an athlon. I'm pretty sure I'm not running x86_64 or a sparc so help me out :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 (edited) what does cat /proc/cpuinfo say? I have an Athlon XP 1900+ [root@localhost root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 6 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1607.042 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 1589.24 when I compile I use Athlon/Duron/K7 Oh, and 2.6.2 is out. Edited January 31, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 Go for the Athlon/Duron one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 You can run anything compiled as iXXX, such as i386, i586 or i686. Something compiled for .athlon would probably run a bit better, but not that much. Your right X86_64 wouldn't work as that refers to the new AMD 64 chips. As a general rule a process will happily run anything compiled for an older chip (eg a Pentium will run i386) but not the other way round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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