Kernel version for AMD Sempron

[David M. Carney]

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 17:31:23 +0100
Alexandre Franke <alexandre.franke at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).
> 
> --
> Alexandre Franke
> GNU/Linux user #390077
> 

Basically, what Alexander said is correct about it's ok to use that
kernel version. However, he is quite mistaken to think the Semperon CPU
is any kind of Intel 80386 chip. It is an AMD cpu and is not made by
Intel at all.

David

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