Anyone have some ideas why they never built an arch for p4 CPUs into the
kernel? I realize that these are covered by i386. A little while ago, after
looking round a bit in a custom tree and creating a p4 arch myself (Im not a
programmer BTW, just hacking, pruned out some 'surplus' code mostly, using
2.6.14), a clean build ran in *lots* less time. No runtime benchmarks, but
response times were also definately better, and had no issues with drivers or
anything. Used gcc 3.4.5 too.
It wasnt quite as stable so I did something wrong somewhere, but it seems odd
there was no real demand for this arch. Especially since p4s have been around
for so long.
BTW I did have a look on google, but mostly found newbies asking the same
question with no response or devs saying they couldnt be bothered lol. Just
seems a shame to waste potential if its there :). Comments?
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