Warty CPUupgrade: Intel Pentium III to AMD Sempron 2400

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Daniel Robitaille">

> If I understand this right,  I should be using the "linux-k7" package
> instead on this hardware; I think:  I have been looking at the wiki
> and mailing list archives without much success to understand exactly
> what is k7, and to what cpus it should be used on.

k7 runs on any AMD x86 compatible CPU from Duron/Athlon up.

> So if I'm right, should I even bother upgrade the kernel (and assorted
> CPU-optimized packages)?    And what's the best approach?  getting
> "linux-k7" would do the kernel and modules.  But there should be the odd
> other packages also available that are cpu-optimized as well.  Are they
> going to be installed as well?

May as well install linux-k7. There really isn't anything else to install,
as most sensible software selects CPU-specific optimised functions at run
time (don't believe the build-everything-from-source hype).

- Jeff

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