Re: Some experiences upgrading my kernel from 2.4.28 to 2.6.11.8

On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 04:19:02PM +0200, Andrew Gaylard wrote:
> Aron Griffis wrote:
> >Andrew Gaylard wrote:	[Fri May 27 2005, 03:49:09PM EDT]
> >>I did the "emerge -ua world" to bring my whole system up to date.
> >>sendmail-8.13.3 and strace-4.5.11 wouldn't build.  Anyone seen this?
> >
> >
> >Please file bugs for these... http://bugs.gentoo.org/
> 
> OK, done.  The sendmail bug is bug 94287.
> The strace problem's gone away -- I must have tried an older version.
> 
Nope, we fixed that bug :)
<snip>
> >
> >Interesting!  For me "generic" doesn't work, but "dp264" does (on
> >a ds20e).  I guess this is sort of like the tulip driver: if it
> >doesn't work, try the other one.
> 
> Here's a question: will my kernel be slower if it isn't built for
> the exact machine type?  In other words, what exactly does the
> "system type" affect?
> 
Possibly, yes. According to the help in menuconfig the Generic system
type makes the kernel slower and larger. Not sure how big (if any) a 
impact it'll have.

Regards,
Bryan Østergaard
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