From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272305AbTG3WTi (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:19:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272307AbTG3WTi (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:19:38 -0400 Received: from [212.97.163.22] ([212.97.163.22]:29433 "EHLO aneto.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272305AbTG3WTh (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:19:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:19:25 +0200 From: "J.A. Magallon" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: TSCs are a no-no on i386 Message-ID: <20030730221925.GA2858@werewolf.able.es> References: <20030730135623.GA1873@lug-owl.de> <20030730181006.GB21734@fs.tum.de> <20030730183033.GA970@matchmail.com> <20030730184529.GE21734@fs.tum.de> <1059595260.10447.6.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030730203318.GH1873@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <20030730203318.GH1873@lug-owl.de>; from jbglaw@lug-owl.de on Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 22:33:18 +0200 X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.13 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07.30, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: [...] > > ...and IFF those new opcodes bring _that_ much performance, then we > should think about another Debian distribution for i686-linux. Up to > now, I was really proud of having _one_ distribution that's basically > capable of running on all and any machines I own... > Do as Mandrake (and I suppose another distros), and put optimized libraries in /lib/i686, /lib/mmx, /lib/sse, /usr/lib/i686, etc. New ld.so supports mapping different versions of library depending on arch. -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf.able.es \ It's better when it's free Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.4.22-pre9-jam1m (gcc 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-0.7mdk))