From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ankit Jain Subject: Re: uname -a Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 04:33:13 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <20041130043313.68054.qmail@web52905.mail.yahoo.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: newbie actually i want to use SSE2 instructions. i dont know iwhether my program is really using that or not(internally) thanks ankit jain --- "J." wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Ankit Jain wrote: > > > uname -a > > Linux Ankit 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST > 2003 > > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > > > prints this > > > > i want to know how is it possible that machine & > > processor is 686 and hardware platform is 386 > > > > thanks > > > > ankit jain > > Did you compile the kernel yourself ? If so you > should reconfigure and > recompile. If not then prob. you have installed a > default kernel, which > is, yes precompiled for the 386. > > Anyway if you are a `starting' user it shouldn't be > much of a > problem or affect the preformance of your computer > v.s. os. > > J. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at > http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs