new linux-image: why?

[Alexander Antoniades]

I'm unclear on this, isn't k7 the 32 bit Athlon family of chips (like
his 1800+) and K8 is the AMD 64 family of chips?
I was looking for some information on this, but it indeed show that
only the very first Athlon is called k7, but the first 64 bit chip is
called K8, implying the the previous chips are all one generation.
Without getting into some whole source v binary debate, is getting the
686 (which presumably is optimized for a Pentium 2) any better than
the plain 386 binary?

Thanks for you help,

Sander

On 6/12/05, trygvebw <trygvebw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now, what about the next question - about optimizing my kernel (if I get it
> right)? Is it worthwhile to change from 386 to k7 kernel, if I have AMD
> Athlon 1800+ XP processor?
> 
> No, the K7 kernel is for older AMD processors. You should use the 686 
> kernel.
> 
> trygvebw
> 
> On 6/12/05, Donatas G. <ziogelis77 at takas.lt> wrote:
> > 
> > 2005 m. Birželio 12 d., Sekmadienis 18:29, Christian Mager rašė:
> > 
> > > > Another question: I have a system with AMD Athlon 1800+ XP processor. 
> > So
> > > > perhaps I should change my kernel to another one:
> > > >
> > > > linux-image-2.6.10-5-k7
> > > > or maybe
> > > > linux-image-2.6.11-5-k7 ?
> > > >
> > > > Do I have chances on optimizing and speeding up my system?
> > >
> > > hi, perhaps this link can help you:
> > >
> > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=40188
> > 
> > OK, got it. In short, it is a security update of Linux kernel.
> > 
> > Now, what about the next question - about optimizing my kernel (if I get 
> > it
> > right)? Is it worthwhile to change from 386 to k7 kernel, if I have AMD
> > Athlon 1800+ XP processor?
> > 
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