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kommissar
August 13th, 2005, 06:32 PM
Hello everyone. I am currently following this excellent guide on how to compile your own kernel found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelHowto

Everything is working well for me, but I have one question. When the make-kpkg is complete it produces a deb with an _i386 in the file name. However, I run a pentium 4 and would like the compiler to optimize for the i686 architecture. Is there a config file that I have to edit somewhere or flags that I have to set for GCC? I'm used to gentoo's /etc/make.conf so in Ubuntu I'm not sure where to look. Thanks for your help!
PeP
August 13th, 2005, 06:40 PM
it is one of the options you set up in make menuconfig (or whatever make <foo>config you use)
in processor type and features -> processor family
kommissar
August 13th, 2005, 07:33 PM
it is one of the options you set up in make menuconfig (or whatever make <foo>config you use)
in processor type and features -> processor family
I have it on Pentium 4, maybe it's just giving it a strange i386 label for some reason. It comes out like this: kernel-image-2.6.11.08132005_10.00.Custom_i386.deb (the 08132005 is my custom date label).