Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:24:56 -0500 | From | Dennis <> | Subject | Re: menuconfig snafu? |
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At 03:36 PM 03/28/2001, you wrote: >On Wednesday 28 March 2001 22:17, Dennis wrote: > > its seems that "make menuconfig" only allows you to select 1 processor > > type. it seems impossible that you cant build a generic kernel that > > supports different processors. Its this just a menuconfig bug? > > > > Dennis > >You pick the lowest common denominator. If you want a kernel that runs >everywhere (x86 arch), pick the plain old 386. > >Or, read the menuconfig help :-) > >CONFIG_M386: >This is the processor type of your CPU. This information is used for >optimizing purposes. In order to compile a kernel that can run on all x86 CPU >types (albeit not optimally fast), you can specify "386" here. > >The kernel will not necessarily run on earlier architectures than the one you >have chosen, e.g. a Pentium optimized kernel will run on a PPro, but not >necessarily on a i486.
I KNOW this..my point is that menuconfig is not intuitive in providing the choices.
DB
>Regards, >also Dennis :-)
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