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cmccarter
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 Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:41 pm Post subject: Which stage3 tarball |
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| No new to Linux but am to using a pentium. which stage3 tarball should I use for a pentium2 processor? i386, 686 or what. |
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6D7474
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for pentium 2 AFAIK you should go with i686 tarball
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EzInKy
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| 6D7474 wrote: | for pentium 2 AFAIK you should go with i686 tarball
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Confirmed by checking the GCC Docs.
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686, pentiumpro
Intel PentiumPro CPU.
pentium2
Intel Pentium2 CPU based on PentiumPro core with MMX instruction set support.
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limn
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Given that the hardware requirement is 486 or later, who should be using i386? |
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6D7474
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| limn wrote: | | Given that the hardware requirement is 486 or later, who should be using i386? |
IIRC there are no i486 or i586 tarballs.... |
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limn
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| So only if uname -m shows 486 or 586 use the x86 stage 3 tarball, which sets CHOST to i386-pc-linux-gnu? |
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6D7474
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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| limn wrote: | | So only if uname -m shows 486 or 586 use the x86 stage 3 tarball, which sets CHOST to i386-pc-linux-gnu? |
pretty much yes...
have also a look at safe cflags at gentoo wiki, there are also chost settings there for different cpus:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags |
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limn
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The wiki suggests that i386-pc-linux-gnu does not belong on any Gentoo system, and that i486-pc-linux-gnu probably only makes sense as a cross-compiled target.
This leaves only a few i586s, installing the x86 tarball, which sets CHOST to i386-pc-linux-gnu.
One might pick the x86 tarball thinking it was intended to run on any x86 box and therefore a good choice. |
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Tamsco
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I think you can get away with a i386, i686 or a x86 with variance in performance. I think i686 would give the best performance but i386 would be the safest.
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