Meat Plow <meat@petitmorte.net> writes:

> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:37:44 +0100, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
>
>> Meat Plow <meat@petitmorte.net> wrote:
>>> Where can I fetch an AMD64 kernel to play with? I could easily note the
>>> differences in performance if any.
>>
>> If you want to play about with one to test performance, you're probably
>> better off downloading a generic kernel from kernel.org and compiling 2 to
>> test yourself, that way you know the only compile options that change are
>> the architecture (i686 and AMD64) so you have a good baseline to compare
>> them against.
>
> Thanks. I thought about that right after I hit the send button.
>

Or you could not bother and compare the config files that ship with the
bespoke debian kernels. You will find little difference.

You would be far more interested in "standard" kernel stability and
performance than some optimised mish mash assuming you want to
use it on your desktop.

Clearly if you have very specialised needs then the above might not be
so valid. I know that whenever I have compiled my own there is very,
very little difference in performance and one of the only times I would
consider it would be for very specialised HW situations where I know I
can leave out 90% of the default drivers.