Re: How to compile kernel for i686 instead of i386?

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 01:28:11PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> Boot time may serve as a rough measure of kernel performance since it is
> the kernel that acts the most at that time.

But kernel does unusual things during boot, like wait for i2c devices to
respond identifying your ram modules, or similar for disks. This never
happens again later, and is usualy not bound by kernel performance, but
devices.

Martin