New MB recommendations

[Tony Alfrey]

Net Llama! wrote:
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> 
> The initrd has absolutely nothing to do with the CPU.  Its tied to your 
> kernel, which is built for whichever CPU it was built against.
> 

Well, that's good.

OK, so where does the *kernel* get built for some off-the-shelf distro? 
  If I install SuSE  on a P2 box or a P4 box, is the kernel that comes 
with the distro simply a pre-compiled kernel for the i386 (I think 
that's the expression) or when I install the distro, is a specific 
kernel compiled that is optimized for my CPU?  And since I have 
re-compiled the kernel on my tweaked Caldera box (just a P2), would I 
expect that kernel on that drive to boot on the P4?

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