A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase.

My new machine is performing beautifully at his point.
I wasn't sure.  The critical components had to be shipped
from a supplier in Hong Kong and I had a slight concern
about the integrity of the business.

But it all check out well so far.

I have swapped a PCI 2 vid card from my junk Winblows
machine into my PCI 3 slot just to get hings going.

The BIOS tweak comes first.

Since I don't use that stupid UEFI boot, I needed to
enable CSM (Compatibility Support Module) to allow
legacy booting.  I disabled Secure Boot as well since
I won't have gremlins constantly attacking my machine.
Also Intel AMT (Active Management Technology) is disabled.
The virtual machine (VT-d) is out as well (only a fucking
asshole uses virtual machines).

But other BIOS options left me bewildered.  What the
fuck is "CFG Lock?"  It seems to be another security feature
so I disabled it.

Now everything is tweaked to perfection and I await the
arrival of my Nvidia card.

There will no SSDs on this machine.  Never. HDDs only.

SSDs are a gimmick made for assholes.

Next comes the highly tuned kernel and software.

Here is my compile string for cross compilation:

-O2 -pipe -flto=9 -fuse-linker-plugin \
-march=skylake -mmmx -mpopcnt -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mssse3 -msse4.1 -msse4.2 \
-mavx -mavx2 -mno-sse4a -mno-fma4 -mno-xop -mfma -mno-avx512f -mbmi -mbmi2 \
-maes -mpclmul -mno-avx512vl -mno-avx512bw -mno-avx512dq -mno-avx512cd \
-mno-avx512vbmi -mno-avx512ifma -mno-avx512vpopcntdq -mno-avx512vbmi2 -mno-gfni \
-mno-vpclmulqdq -mno-avx512vnni -mno-avx512bitalg -mno-avx512bf16 \
-mno-avx512vp2intersect -mno-3dnow -madx -mabm -mno-cldemote -mclflushopt \
-mno-clwb -mno-clzero -mcx16 -mno-enqcmd -mf16c -mfsgsbase -mfxsr -mno-hle -msahf \
-mno-lwp -mlzcnt -mmovbe -mno-movdir64b -mno-movdiri -mno-mwaitx -mno-pconfig \
-mno-pku -mprfchw -mno-ptwrite -mno-rdpid -mrdrnd -mrdseed -mno-rtm -mno-serialize \
-msgx -mno-sha -mno-shstk -mno-tbm -mno-tsxldtrk -mno-vaes -mno-waitpkg -mno-wbnoinvd \
-mxsave -mxsavec -mxsaveopt -mxsaves -mno-amx-tile -mno-amx-int8 -mno-amx-bf16 \
-mno-uintr -mno-hreset -mno-kl -mno-widekl -mno-avxvnni -mno-avx512fp16 -mno-avxifma \
-mno-avxvnniint8 -mno-avxneconvert -mno-cmpccxadd -mno-amx-fp16 -mno-prefetchi \
-mno-raoint -mno-amx-complex -mno-avxvnniint16 -mno-sm3 -mno-sha512 -mno-sm4 -mno-apxf \
-mno-usermsr --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 \
--param l2-cache-size=16384 -mtune=skylake -dumpbase \
-malign-data=cacheline -mvzeroupper -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block \
-fno-stack-protector -mindirect-branch=keep -mfunction-return=keep -mharden-sls=none \
-fcf-protection=none -Wl,-z,norelro -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE

Disto purists eat your hearts out.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!


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