[Pardus-users] To recompile kernel or not to recompile kernel

[Onur Küçük]

Friday 16 January 2009 Tarihinde 11:45:45 yazmıştı:
> Looking around in the latest kernel I noticed that it was configurated for
> pentium II and not Pentium M as I have: >>Processor Type and
> Feature>>Processor Family>>(x) Pentium II/Celeron (Pre- Coppermine).
>
> I wonder if there is a way to change this without recompiling the kernel,
> on the other hand I have heard that the Pentium M option is not the
> optimal. But Pentium II...
>
> I  have tried to recompile the kernel once in Pardus, and it did not work
> (had to reinstall), I managed to recompile the kernel but not install it.
> So is there a good, specific Pardus- guide somewhere?
>
> Regards and I wish to say that the developers of Pardus does a grezat job,
> I really appreciate it.
>
> Martin Sjöstrand

 You don't need to recompile the kernel for CPU support, we have 
CONFIG_X86_GENERIC=y set and that pretty much handles optimizations for 
different CPU's. PENTIUMII setting is the minimum supported CPU that is in the 
GENERIC code


 İf you want to manually compile your kernel, you should checkout 
http://svn.pardus.org.tr/pardus/2008/kernel/ , change the default config that 
is set with the patch in the files folder and do a "pisi -d build" and build 
it. After installing that kernel you need to recompile the packages (kernel 
drivers) that you are using, like alsa-drivers


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 Onur Küçük                                      Knowledge speaks,
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