"-generic" was( Re: Optimized kernel builds: the straight dope)

[Gnu/Linux Technology]

I jump to this post for asking if it is possible to integrate in the 
hardware detection a script detecting the category of the cpu to install 
a i686 kernel when needed by example.
(Only if it is some free space on cd to include kernel-images, or if we 
go to the solution of an install DVD.)

Lloyd D Budd a écrit :
> On 8/20/06, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> With the beta of Edgy, I am testing the Edgy release and of course one
> of the first things I noticed was the removal of my "optimized"
> kernel. Reading through this discussion it seems like removal was a
> thoughtful decision.
>
> What I disagree with is the naming of the kernel "-generic". If the
> kernel did not have this suffix I probably would have shrugged and
> moved on. The "-generic" influenced me to look up what made it generic
> and what non-generic kernels are available.
>
> Is this naming being adopted by other Linux distributions? If not,
> what is the advantage of being different? xi6 is the generic platform,
> but labeling it as such may create a legacy. If a suffix is desired
> isn't something like "-x86" better?
>
>