on 8/3/2007 2:39 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > David Boles wrote: > >> He is referring to the kernels in Fedora 8. There are only i686 kernels. > > I believe that kernel does work on i586 and it is called i686 to prevent > a update path conflict with RPM. There was some discussions in > fedora-devel list about this. Dave Jones (CC'ed) should be able to confirm. I believe that you are correct and that I did not say that correctly. It has been discussed and evidently done that a kernel named i686 would support i586, i686, SMP. All. There are only kernels with i686 in the package name. The kernel-headers have remained named i386. -- David
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