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From: Drew <drew.kay@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] AMD64 + hardened
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:45:14
Message-Id: c268e4660609041341j363111bfj8b702d9956b05969@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] AMD64 + hardened by Ed W
1 > > If you're doing a 32bit install use i686 not pentium4, check if your
2 > > amd64 support sse3, if so add -msse3.
3 >
4 > OK, I'm curious. Why i686 instead of pentium4?
5
6 Because the pentium4 flag includes certain CPU opcodes AFAIK only
7 found on Pentium 4's. The i686 flag is a generic flag certain to work
8 on all PentiumPro/P2/P2+ & compatible chipsets, which AMD Athlon 64's
9 are.
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11
12 -Drew
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