On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 02:24:36PM -0300, Alexandre Strube wrote: > Em Ter, 2004-03-09 às 10:30, Jakub Jelinek escreveu: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:25:03PM +0000, Phil Hannent wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a repository that has i686 binaries compiled for fedora? > > This is a FAQ, rpms included in fedora are already optimized for i686. > > Unfortunately. There are thousands of old 486 which could be filtering > packets with fedora lying around a corner, making dust. With the exception of kernel which is i586+ in rpm, all packages can be used on 486 just fine. Optimized for i686 doesn't mean doesn't work on older hw. On IA-32 most of the instructions the compiler generates (cmov* is an exception) is available from i386 up, but everything can be done with many different instructions, so optimization is mainly about choice of instructions from various alternatives and insn scheduling. Jakub
