Thread: [SSI-users] Changing the default build to i686 for rc2
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From: John B. <joh...@hp...> - 2004-01-30 22:44:13
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For reasons of space and compile time we only build one kernel for the release. A long time ago this was chosen to be the i586-smp kernel with the configuration based upon the RedHat i586-smp kernel. One feature that this kernel does not have built in is support for more than 980MB of memory and this is proving to be a serious limitation. So, we have decided to change the default kernel we build for release to the i686-smp kernel which supports 4GB of memory. I honestly don't know what the compatibility issues are of the kernel with an actual Pentium, but I have run 686 kernels with PPros, P2s, P3s, and P4s without trouble. The kernel src rpm will contain the i586 config file and will be usable for anyone who need to build the i586 rpm. John Byrne |