Optimized kernel builds: the straight dope

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 04:06:55PM -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
> I personally like my i686 kernel, just because I don't like the name
> 'i386'  :)

The names will change.  I believe Ben's proposal was "generic" and "smp"; I
prefer "" (plain 'linux') for the generic kernel myself.

> Why don't you look into glibc as well, since we have i486 vs i686 glibc.

That costs us much less, so it isn't much of a priority.  Statistics
welcome.

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 - mdz