My experiments with Linux: Custom kernel 2.6.38.3 32bit packages optimized for core2 and above processors

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Custom kernel 2.6.38.3 32bit packages optimized for core2 and above processors

This package is created in Linux Mint 10 and should install fine in all versions of Ubuntu Linux
10.10 and Linux Mint 10 (should as well in debian squeeze but not sure about dkms)

The build is for 32bit core2 processors and will work with any core2duo, quadcore, i3, i5, xeon
or i7 processors

I tested the built 32 bit core2 optimized kernel inside Virtualbox (4.0.2) running LinuxMint10. It ran without any problem

I donot have a core2 system to test (I have i7 sys but dont have 32bit system to check 32bit packages), so use it at your own risk

I increased the number of cores inside virtualbox linux to 4 to speed up compilation. Compilation took 45 minutes which is a good improvement from 2 hours, but nowhere near 20 mins build which I get when compiling natively

The files can be downloaded from the following links and can be checked against the SHA256SUM and MD5SUM given at the bottom of this blog to verify if the correct file is downloaded

SHA256SUMS

5a66422aa9126c63acec94b5880c6c926fc52373c7cce92692e1ea0102d66ef8 CONFIG-CORE2

47b7ef3991d9a1ecf68c21ce7aee68b62c13d7976d7d4710b595d78251a17fd1 linux-headers-2.6.38.3-core2_12.00_i386.deb

92db3cfc78050aad840635ff45d674cc6d51082af50377ecb2b6734d14191607 linux-image-2.6.38.3-core2_12.00_i386.deb

43aac184ee2402bbb151daaef00a00417dabba5ea70c6f02d4857f5b869df420 Readme.odt

f2396a3c831726eb963c41a175873a107d251dca5ac14d729da0203ea11b9904 Readme.pdf

MD5SUMS

f4347120485fc16375f31348b76c1585 CONFIG-CORE2

2e9536449cb636060c09b0bbee8c7ca0 linux-headers-2.6.38.3-core2_12.00_i386.deb

f22390aa4957f9c03ffcd2ed979876af linux-image-2.6.38.3-core2_12.00_i386.deb

faf5c8c66722ced0fdb5c9e7a2a90df2 Readme.odt

3bfeb5333f9de9f833b76c90cee23de2 Readme.pdf