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I may have a large hard disk but I see with kernel-source installed there's a whole slew of sub-dirs - \ppc \sparc \itanium \arm etc. - which are non-pentium related ...
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- 03-24-2006 #1Just Joined!
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Compiling for i586, can I lose these non-Intel sub-dirs?
I may have a large hard disk but I see with kernel-source installed there's a whole slew of sub-dirs - \ppc \sparc \itanium \arm etc. - which are non-pentium related and do take up a fair space, so can I delete them?
I see from faqs that a processor choice comes up after 'make menuconfig' is invoked but it seems logical that if a pentium flavour is chosen then subsequent coding ignores anything non-pentium, right?
- 03-26-2006 #2Linux User
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Try it ;)
I think you could since in previous versions of the source code, the code was mixed for all architechtures (conditional compiling with #ifdef) and now theorically is splited in sub-directories.
But if you have enough disk space my advice is: don't touch it.
Best regards!
- 03-27-2006 #3Just Joined!
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>>my advice is: don't touch it.
yeah I know
I might just run DriveImage for a backup and try it.
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