Kernel version for AMD Sempron

[Alexandre Franke]

On 2/5/06, alvonsius albert <alvonsius.albert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hai all, this is my first post here ... I want  to ask, yesterday I was
> installing Kubuntu on my friend's notebook. Unfortunately I forgot that her
> notebook was using AMD Sempron as it's processor. Since i installed the i386
> vrsion of Kubuntu, is there any problem that will occurs? Or is there any
> sugestion what version of kernel will match the machine?

Shortly, the Sempron is an intel 80386 on top of which sets of
instructions have been added. It's the same for pentiums, athlons and
so on. The "optimized" kernel version are not *needed*. They only use
these additionnal instructions. So if you don't use a processor
specific kernel, it will run ok. The only thing is they would
theoretically run better with the kernel which was optimized (meaning
written to use the specific sets of intructions).

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Alexandre Franke
GNU/Linux user #390077