Optimized kernel builds: the straight dope

[Alex Mauer]

John Richard Moser wrote:
There are gains in some minor places using i686
> instructions; and if analysis shows i486 is so insignificant that we
> really don't care, I would not oppose moving up to i586 (I have one of
> these!) or i686 for the whole system.  I just won't say it's significant
> in its own right, especially not for just the kernel.

Some caution is required here: I have some VIA epia boards which won't
boot the -686 kernel but work fine with the [Debian] -486 kernel.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

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