Hello, On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:46:36 +0700 Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi :)

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 15:16, John Mahoney <jmahoney@waav.com> wrote:

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Just a heads up. Try not to top post here. See my comment inline.

On Dec 8, 2010, at 2:10 AM, Alex John <alex@archeleus.com> wrote:

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Thanks, I'll compile for P4 then.

I was just thinking and realized the core2 may have been based off the p3 arch and the p4 was a dead end, but normally with intel you can compile for the LCD, but I may have lied this time. Also, I believe one is 32bit and the other is 64bit, but a 32 bit kernel will work on both.

I think Core 2 is more like "almost new" arch....I bet it tends to be closer to newer Xeon (according to related Kbuild message)

Apparently Core 2 is similar to the Coppermine T in some ways (such as netburst) but I think that its new as well since it's the model for quads, i7's etc;

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If you want to guarantee it works on both I would compile for 32bit i386, but feel free to have some fun. If you do compile with p4 post if it worked on the core2, I am sort of interested now.

I suggest to start with i686 first, then work gradually up

Compiled a generic for i686 and it worked perfectly with both processors, but then my old gentoo instincts kicked in and I compiled two different versions. Cheers - Alex.