[Mageia-discuss] Kernel handling

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op dinsdag 09 november 2010 04:38:06 schreef Michael Scherer:
> Le mardi 09 novembre 2010 à 01:00 +0100, Egon Ashrafinia a écrit :
> > On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 00:38:14 +0100
> > 
> > Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Op dinsdag 09 november 2010 00:26:20 schreef Egon Ashrafinia:
> > > > Hey guys :)
> > > > 
> > > > I'm new on the ML and now I have got something to discuss.
> > > > 
> > > > In Mandriva 2010.1 and Cooker we have 2 sorts of Kernels.
> > > > 
> > > > The first one is : kernel586-Desktop
> > > > and the other one is : kernel-Desktop (i686)
> > > > 
> > > > Do we need i586? I mean I alwys use i686 without any problems. Maybe
> > > > we should remove i586 ... what do you think?
> > > > 
> > > > Greeting
> > > > 
> > > > Egon (Wubbbi)
> > > 
> > > No, this has been discussed several times; some people need that
> > > kernel; because this software still runs on pentium machines and they
> > > are still being used.
> > 
> > But in my optinion we cant always support old Hardware. The Problem is
> > that the i586 Kernel is not getting out the full Power of new CPUs like
> > AMD K10 or the Intel iX.
> 
> On newer processors, just use a 64 bits distribution if your
> preoccupation is to get the "full power" of your hardware.

actually, we should probably make i586 the default; because most new stuff is 
x86_64 anyway...