Re: CPU type .config <-> i386/Makefile question[s]

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 02:58:50PM +0100, Nick Warne wrote:

> Hello all,

Hi Nick,

> I am still a n00b here learning, so by all means tell me to get lost if what I 
> am about to say is total bollocks...
> 
> I was just running through building the new 2.4.31 kernel on my Quake2 box, 
> with looking at building this time with a few optimisations.
>...
> Is there a specific reason why the flags aren't -march=pentium2, pentiumpro 
> etc?

the specific reason is that kernel 2.4 is in a maintainance mode and 
such changes are not considered being worth the risk of breaking 
anything anywhere with any of the supported gcc versions.

In kernel 2.6, this is already handled the way you expect it.

> Also I notice that if I changed the top level Makefile to include my specific 
> CPU, then the i386/Makefile adds += -march=i686 to the build lines AFTER 
> CFLAGS~ thus the second one will take precedence (I guess) anyway, and the 
> -march CFLAG changes are basically over-ridden?

Users are not expected to manually set any CFLAGS.

It might work in your case, but unless you _really_ know what you are 
doing you always risk some breakage.

> Regards,
> 
> Nick

cu
Adrian

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