Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

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On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 14:00 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Fernando Cassia wrote:
> > All PIIIs are single cores, AFAIK. Mine is dual in the sense of having
> > two CPUs, including heatsink. You know, good ole "SMP" before the
> > multicore craze started.
> > 
> > Good to know F11 runs OK. I wasn´t even sure it included i586 kernels.
> > 
> PIII is recent. Not clear if it would run on PentiumPro, although I don't see 
> why not. PPro had full speed cache, P-II had half speed, and I think there was 
> some other difference regarding running 16 bit MS-DOS programs, but I can't 
> remember what it was. My original dual-PPro ran Xenix-386 IIRC, and 
> compatibility with anything 16 bit was irrelevant.

F11 is -march=i586 -mtune=generic, F12 is going to be -march=i686
-mtune=atom. Everything from PPro up is i686, so everything should work
just fine.
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