Re: Stupid question

[Jan Engelhardt]

>>>Silly Q of the day probably, but what do I set in a Makefile for
>>> the -march=option for building on a 233 mhz Pentium 2?
>>
>>Now that's really stupid, but here's the answer:
>>
>>You run `make menuconfig` (or whichever you like) and choose
>> Processor Type "Pentium II".
>
>If I was building a kernel, then yes my question was stupid.
>
>Except I'm not building a kernel, I'm tryng to compile a module to
>drive some truely dumb hardware, reusing code that was last touched
>[...]

Well, take a fresh kernel tree, set the desired CPU type, and then look at the
.config which is generated. Voilà -- in theory ;-)

>Yeah, I'm stupid.  Virtually all of my original C coding has been done
>on much smaller architectures, and 15 to 20 years ago.  Terminal rust

Never hurts trying to compile a 2.6 for 386SX if the will is strong. :-)



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