[PD] laptop linux

[derek holzer]

Hi Ed,

Ed Kelly wrote:

 > Pentium M under Linux is Pentium 3.

It seems to have a lot to do with what compiler flags you use:

http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2308

Maybe there's still some hope with compiling your whole system with 
custom flags under Gentoo?

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Gentoo_compile_flags:

> If you have a Pentium-M cpu you should use "-march=pentium3" since it's a Pentium 3 deriviate, unless you're using GCC >=3.4 which is marked as unstable. GCC 3.4 has a specific march-setting for Pentium-M machines.

Looks like with GCC >=3.4 you could use the -march=pentium-m flag.

Other interesting links:

http://tuxmobil.org/centrino.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/29/006226&tid=137&tid=118
http://sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=635

best,
d.

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