[Mageia-discuss] Kernel handling

Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanraes at gmail.com
Tue Nov 9 01:20:38 CET 2010


Op dinsdag 09 november 2010 01:00:50 schreef Egon Ashrafinia:
> 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. Maybe we could make the i686 the default one and the i586
> as an option? I think that will be better for our "non-Pc-geek-users".
> 
> Greetings


the i686 _IS_ the default one for x86 cpus


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